Fall of the American Empire

Submitted by horhay (United States), Apr 4, 2006 at 15:21

Daniel Pipes says,"We did something good in getting rid of the Taliban and getting rid of Saddam Hussein. That is really the extent of our role, to get rid of the hideous totalitarian regimes." This is totally missing the point. The U.S. government propped up Saddam and the Taliban. We created these monsters in the first place. ... Iraq has been assimilated by many empires throughout history. But in the end these empires have withered or collapsed due to overreaching and internal conflict.

The "cradle of civilization" began in Mesopotamia (the Fertile Crescent). This region has always had strategic importance and value to occupying armies. Like many Arabs, most of the Iraqis accepted Islam as their religion. But they kept their identity, while the conquerers retreated and fell into dissarray.

So this is where the U.S. is now. We will try to maintain permanent military bases in Iraq, but we are losing ourselves in the process.

An insurgency in Iraq is one thing. An insurgency within the U.S. is quite another, isn't it?

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