Kosovo and Iraq are two different animals. In Kosovo a secular (but still a Judeo-Christian nation) the US, destroyed a Christian nation, Serbia, to give freedom to a muslim majority province of Kosovo. The minority of Serbians in Kosovo today are hanging by a thread. Wait until Jizia is imposed on them. Ask the Kosavars about the US (they just erected a huge statue to Clinton) and you will truly understand the significance of what happened. Never in history has an event like that ever happened.
Bush was an isolationist, he wanted to look after the interest of the american citizen. He had zero interest (or knowledge) of world affairs, then 9/11 happened. After Afghanistan we went into Iraq to free "the Iraqi"s from Sadaam" . Even I, who was pretty knowledgeable of the area, was suprised of the sunni/shia hatred, and slaughter. This was our biggest failure in Iraq.
I almost forgot to reply to this one, Nomad. Your argument will only logically stand if you believe America is waging or
should be waging a "Judeo-Chrisitian-Muslim" war.
Nothing should be further from the truth, IMO.
This entire concept of "Judeo-Christian-hood" seems to me a 20th century New World construct that gained particular traction
only after WWII had rendered both faiths ash heaps - at least in their former "joint habitat" where they flourished for nearly two millennia. How many more
rivers of blood must flow to usher in a "Judeo-Christian-Muslim-People-of-the-book" construct in another 50-100 years as a gesture of reconciliation?
Not that I am particularly advocating another pseudo-religious construct for political expediency. But I simply wish to point out - what's sauce for the goose, is
sauce for the gander.
It's far better to "
live and let live" now, than kill and be killed later. It seems that only the Catholics are concerned with the so-called "
Just War" these days. Though I am no Catholic - but it strikes me that the Pope is doing more than many the so-called Protestant leaders, particularly on this side of the Pacific/Atlantic.
As an example - Mullah Hagee to me is simply Taliban with a Cross.
Now if you say your war is really a defensive struggle of Secularism vs Fanaticism - then Kosovo and Iraq are two putrid fruits hanging from the same accursed tree.
I blame part of GWB's folly on Bill Clinton's "precedence" in Kosovo. Now I make a clear distinction between
Kosovo and Bosnia. In a land of anarchy and organized atrocities that bordered on genocide (as in
Bosnia), intervention was
just. But carving out Kosovo was inexcusable - Kosavars being Muslims or not (to you that seems to bear singular significance).
There is no need to discuss Iraq, except to say that if your goal was to wage wars to protect "Secular Christendom" - then you would've had no better friend than in Saddam, who was as nominal a Muslim as nominal Muslims went (as told to me).
So I take exceptions with your statements above from ideological, factual, and even logical perspectives.
Thanks.