I wonder how many of America's problems have been caused directly by America?
They arm one lot, only for them to be enemies a few years later.

I wonder how many of America's problems have been caused directly by America?
They arm one lot, only for them to be enemies a few years later.

About 10 days after 9/11 I went through the Pentagon and I saw Mr Rumsfeld and Secretary Wolferwitz and I went downstairs, just to say hello to some of the people and the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in and said "have you got a couple of minutes? You've got to come in and talk to me a second."
I said, "well, you're too busy."
"No, no," he says, "we've made the decision, we are going to war with Iraq." This was on or about the 20th September.
I said, "we are going to war with Iraq? Why?"
He said, "I don't know." He said, "I guess they don't know what else to do."
So, I said, "have they found some information linking Saddam to Al Qiada?"
He said, "no, no, there's nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq."
He said, "I guess, we don't know what to do about terrorists, but we have a good military and we can take down governments." And he said, "I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, then every problem has to look like a nail."
So, I came back to see him a few weeks later and by that time, we were bombing in Afgahnistan.
I said, "so, are we still going to war with Iraq?
He said, "oh, its worse than that!" He said and he reached over on his desk and picked up a piece of paper and he said "I just got this down from upstairs, from the Secretary of Defence's Office today," and he said, "and it is a memo, which describes how we are going to take out 7 countries in five years. Starting with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia and Sudan and finishing off with Iran."

That doesn't look even remotely like a blueprint for the Arab Spring (TM). It's clearly an absurd wishlist of terrorist sponsoring nations to occupy, it can't possibly have been a serious plan, and it obviously went out the windows years ago when they discovered that this stuff is difficult.