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How Many Allies to be Sacrificed for BO’s Ego?
James Lewis / American Thinker
When George W. Bush left office, Libya was a halfway ally, which had dropped its nuclear weapons program at the insistence of the Bush administration.
That was a victory for sanity over extreme danger – i.e., the risk that nukes would fall into the hands of suicide-glorifying gangs like al-Qaeda and ISIS.
Today, Obama has overthrown Gaddafi for no particular reason, causing tens of thousands of deaths and a raging civil war in Libya.
When George W. Bush left office, Egypt was still a stable country at peace with its neighbors. So were Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen. Even Iraq and Afghanistan were taking precarious steps toward stability.
After six years of Obamanismo, Egypt is at civil war with the Muslim Brotherhood and with ISIS/al-Qaeda terrorists in the Sinai Desert. Egypt has blown up a reported sixty smuggling tunnels to Hamas in Gaza, because Hamas is the terrorist group spun off by the Brotherhood. Obama has consistently supported the MooBros in the battle against Egyptian stability.
Now Syria is being torn apart between Iran-supported Shi’ites and Saudi-supported Sunnis, notably the Al Nusrah murder gang, now part of ISIS.
ISIS itself exploded into power after Obama told Americans during the election that al-Qaeda is “decimated.” Al-Qaeda is alive, all right, and now its big brother ISIS is laying claim to parts of Iraq and Syria to set up a caliphate – a Muslim sharia empire.
When George W. left office, it was still possible to stop Iran from building nukes, using the same methods that worked so well with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq: a trade embargo combined with a no-fly zone enforced by the U.S. Air Force, which made it impossible for Saddam to attack other nations by air, sea, or land.
Ultimately we invaded and knocked a weakened Saddam from power in three weeks. (Our mistake was to stay there afterward.)
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