I have been pushing lately on Blogmocracy the idea that American blood for Muslim Democracy is not worth it. They are a different culture and in all honesty, a rival of ours. They don’t like us and the sooner we realize this, the better our foreign policy will be. Compassionate Conservatives like George W. Bush and Tranzi Progressives like Barack Hussein Obama believe it is America’s duty to spread Democracy through use of our soldiers in the Islamic world. This is a nonsense view. Our Armed Forces should only be used to serve our interests and to me freedom for Muslims is not our interest. Even the Afghans agree with my assessment!
At our next stop, another flashback. Admiral Mullen sat down for a shura with five colorfully-dressed Afghan elders who had risked their lives just showing up for this meeting — just like Iraqi chiefs used to gather with U.S. commanders in Ramadi, or Tikrit or Kirkuk. Another five elders were invited but never showed.
For security reasons, they hadn’t been told who they’d be meeting with (only that is was an “important American”).
Mullen pulled up his chair to their table, instead of sitting across the room from them at the executive table set up for him. Then he pulled out a notebook, and asked them to tell him what they need.
They did not hold back. For two hours, while Mullen’s staff kept cups of tea coming, the admiral heard everything from demands for a new dam (or two, if we Americans could swing it), to complaints that their young men need an army training facility built in Kandahar, instead of having to go all the way to Kabul, where the elders say their southern Pashtun ways make them the butt of abuse from Northerners.
But the most striking message of all was this: Stop fighting for us.
“You must understand our culture,” one said. “It’s insulting for you to die for us. We should be dying to take back our country, not you.”
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I agree with the Afghan elders 100%. If they want Democracy let them fight and die for it. In all honesty, I really couldn’t care less about the Islamic world, Iran being the exception. If they want dictators, thugs and imams calling the shots, I don’t care. American blood is too precious to waste on these people. We should focus on dominating our hemisphere and backing some allies in Europe, Japan, Philippines, Australia, Ethiopia and Israel. To the rest of the world, we don’t care about you. Also if you mess with the US and our allies we will thoroughly crush your nation. That would be the Rodan Doctrine!
I’m tired of our brave Soldiers dying for silly academic theories. We should only fight for our national interests and we should fight for total victory. God Bless our men and women in uniform. They deserve better leadership than what we have in both Parties at the moment. Hopefully, the American people are waking up and realizing that it is not America’s duty to spread Democracy. That is up to those people in other lands if they are willing to fight for it. If the Afghans want Democracy, let them fight for it!
Update: We lost over 4,000 lives and spent billions rebuilding Iraq. In return we gained, nothing!
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Critics said the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq said was driven by oil, but United States oil majors were largely absent from an Iraqi auction of oil deals snapped up instead by Russian, Chinese and other firms.
Iraqi officials said this proved their independence from U.S. influence and that their two bidding rounds this year for deals to tap Iraq’s vast oil reserves, the world’s third largest, were free of foreign political interference.
The Oil Ministry on Saturday ended its second bidding round after awarding seven of the oilfields offered for development, adding to deals from a first auction in June that could together take Iraq up to a capacity to pump 12 million barrels per day.
“For us in Iraq, it shows the government is fully free from outside influence. Neither Russia nor America could put pressure on anyone in Iraq — it is a pure commercial, transparent competition,” said government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh.
“No one, even the United States, can steal the oil, whatever people think.”
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This is why I don’t believe Iraq was worth it. We conquered the place and have a right to their oil. The Iraqis being the ingrates have shut us out of oil deals. Where these people worth the death of 4,000 Americans?
Tags: Foreign Policy, Rodan Doctrine
