With the passing of Slobo and with Saddam now in a Kangaroo Court Trial in Baghdad...the biggest fallacy of American foreign policy is exposed...
To Wit: THE PERSONALIZATION OF THE "ENEMY."
To often the American policy toward a nation is limited to the personality of it's leaders. Often the fate of the millions who live under the elites is ignored.
In Iraq hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been killed because of the ill-planned American invasion... And there is no end in sight.
In Serbia the West decided to "give" Kosovo to the Muslim Albanians... Why? Who knows...probably as a divide and conquer strategy against former Soviet states. Indeed the US was backing the Chechan rebels UNTIL 911! Then Russia became our "partner" in the fight against Islamist terror.
Then we villified Arafat.
Now there is the villfication of Iran's leadership... Yet Israel can do whatever it wants and the US will not oppose it. THIS, is noticed you know in other parts of the world.
What is not noticed is that the leadership is not the same as the nation... We "hated" Arafat now we have Hamas. We "hated" Saddam now we have the Insurgency an Sadr's Shia Militias. Whose next on the "hate list?" (Alas, Mr Sharon can't tell us anymore!)
Dubya & Co so villified Arabs that now the dollar and the world trading system is in peril...as Kongress seeks to protect "sacred cows" in our economy from foreign takeovers.
In foreign affairs...simple is not always better. In fact it's the one place where SIMPLIFY, SIMPLIFY, SIMPLIFY probably does not apply!
