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Al-Qaida in the Heart of Africa

kbstreet1 Wrote: Jan 18, 2013 10:22 AM
Thinking about Obama’s foreign policy. I started remembering the foreign policy of previous democratic presidents. Woodrow Wilson lost Russia to communism and set-up the 2nd world war Franklin Roosevelt lost Eastern Europe to communism Harry Truman lost China and North Korea to the communists John Kennedy lost Cuba to the communists Lyndon Johnson and the democratic congress lost Vietnam and Southeast Asia to the communists Jimmy Carter lost Iran to the Islamists Bill Clinton failure to act set-up 9-11 and allowed the loss of Somalia etc to the Islamists Barak Obama lost the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and the “Arab Spring” lost Yemen, Ethiopia, Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Mali, Algeria, Sudan, Chad, Mauritania and Pakistan to the mujahide
HermanBB Wrote: Jan 18, 2013 10:35 AM
To kb

Very simplistic response (to be polite).

My favorite was Roosevelt losing Eastern Europe to communism.

Roosevelt didn't lose Eastern Europe, Stalin took it. The Red Army in 1945 was a juggernaut. There was nothing the U.S. could do.
traitorbill Wrote: Jan 18, 2013 3:46 PM
I think it was more a question of will. We probably would have won, even without the use of nukes. How would the world look if, say, Russia had nuclear weapons for 5 years without any competition?
kbstreet1 Wrote: Jan 18, 2013 9:17 PM
Potsdam conference they gave away eastern europe so Russia would join the war against Japan.
kbstreet1 Wrote: Jan 18, 2013 10:32 AM
the mujahideen, al Qeada, and the Islamists. He also allowed Iran to becoome a nuclear power.
Obama waged war domestically on the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the financial security of the Nation by his massive spending and accumulated debt, thereby stealing the very freedoms that this country is based upon.
kbstreet1 Wrote: Jan 18, 2013 10:31 AM
the mujahideen, al Qeada, and the Islamists. He also allowed Iran to becoome a nuclear power.
Obama waged war domestically on the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the financial security of the Nation by his massive spending and accumulated debt, thereby stealing the very freedoms that this country is based upon.
Ann Anon Wrote: Jan 18, 2013 11:34 AM
Good research and excellent development. Keep up the good work.
"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction" is Newton's third law of physics.

Its counterpart in geopolitics is "blowback," when military action in one sphere produces an unintended and undesirable consequence in another.

September 11, 2001, was blowback.

George H.W. Bush had sent an army of half a million to hurl Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, a triumph. He proceeded to impose severe sanctions on the Iraqis and to build U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia.

"Infidel" soldiers on sacred Islamic soil and the suffering of the Iraqi people under American sanctions were two of the causes Osama bin...

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