bill clinton bombed afghanistan 3 years before bush invaded it, going after osama. bill clinton planted the idea that hussein may be making wmds that bush used to invade iraq. indeed the first gulf war was bush sr and every president going back has a hand in the pie in making the middle east a hell hole but clinton's tenure was the opportunity for peace since there was no longer a USSR to fuel anti-US sentiments.
bill clinton bombed afghanistan 3 years before bush invaded it,
A "presicion bombing operation" on a known target is not the same as a fucking war with ten's of thousand of boots on the ground.
bill clinton planted the idea that hussein may be making wmds that bush used to invade iraq.
This is not an argument. "planting ideas"... this way everything is damn easy to connect. W (read Halliburton) started those wars all by himself out of 9/11 frustrated feefees and pure greed. His staff just used the "WMD theory" as a "smoking gun" towards the public and UN to justify the war they wanted to deal with the 9-11 trauma.
every president going back has a hand in the pie in making the middle east a hell hole but clinton's tenure was the opportunity for peace since there was no longer a USSR to fuel anti-US sentiments.
I agree every potus has had a hand in fucking up the middle east. But blaming a war on Clinton not achieving peace in the palestine-isreal dispute, rly?
- thats not valid reasoning
- the middle east is bigger then the Isreal dispute
- The middle east dont need the USSR to fuel Anti-US sentiment, just look at Iran
A "presicion bombing operation" on a known target is not the same as a fucking war with ten's of thousand of boots on the ground.
but when somebody is trying to bomb your home its a mighty good reason to pay some saudi nobodies to fly some planes into buildings. i'm not saying bush isn't a monster for throwing darts at a map and invading those countries but clinton escalated the situation to an untenable level.
This is not an argument
but it is. it gave bush a casus belli. bush's original plans called for invading practically all of the middle east but they had to pick and choose those they could reasonably pass off to the public as dangerous. good thing clinton just happened to mention hussein's WMDs.
But blaming a war on Clinton not achieving peace in the palestine-isreal dispute
i did no such thing. i never mentioned israel and palestine. that failure was largely separate from all of this (*in my view). the US-USSR dick measuring contest in the middle east fueled war for decades and once there was no more funding for constant war, there were only relatively poor countries and groups resisting US policy, targeting vaguely US-affiliated foreign targets. Instead of dealing with the situation diplomatically/pressing regional allies to deal with their own problems, the US showed it was willing to use its overwhelming force to suppress dissent from a people we had no right to suppress and had no significant strategic reason to do so.
tldr; clinton gave bush all the precedent he needed to carry out his insane foreign policy and picked fights with random nobodies he thought were too far away, too small, and too poor to do anything to the US.
Wait wut? Clinton started the first-, second gulfwar and the War in afghanistan? TIL