FAO Alex Ballinger MP and yourself please Stewart - I think, you both need to read the lessons learnt which Jeremy Bowen pinpoints in these pages, 129 to 131 (attached at the foot). Lessons/wisdom, please, to pass on and up to our American friends so that we don't keep on repeating the same follies and idiocies of death and destruction decade after decade.
From 'The Making of the Modern Middle East' by Jeremy Bowen, pub 2022. My own conclusions and interpretation, below from Jeremy's lifetime of observing and reporting the world scene as a highly respected top journalist.The tragic over-reaction to 9/11 in 2001 in attacking Afghanistan by America and its allies was partly to make Israel safer; it is our State in the heart of the Arab Middle East after all. It led to twenty years of catastophe for Afghans which was brought to a climax in our even more catastrophic and incompetent withdrawal in 2021.
On page 130, Jeremy quotes the apt parallel of the lion raging and killing anything that moves in the forest when the hyena takes the lion's cub to explain America continuing to rage as a consequence of 9/11 - even to this day.
A most sobering but so wise quote is included on page 130
Totally ignored because America and its Wild West allies know that only protracted punishment and 70 x 7 revenge in war can ever properly deal with the Muslims who have spawned jihadist militants and Islamist extremists. It was they who attacked the World Trade Center in 1993 and the Twin Towers in 2001.
Followed by our war on Iraq in 2003 to wipe out any chance of them having WMD to threaten Israel or the American led West.
History repeated, this time to help make Israel even safer, by American breaking off talks with Iran to attack them to wipe out any chance of them having WMD or long range ballistic missiles. Jeremy's consequences of shaking the Middle East (p 129) continue to this day with our war on Iran since 28 February.
Now we have President Bush Jnr's axis of evil (p 130), minus North Korea, enduring punishing revenge with unstable/unsuitable Emperor Trump doling out the death and destruction on them and even poor but beautiful Lebanon, again in 2026. All to wipe out our enemies for good, for ever, for eternity, to never see them stand again.
But why does it never seem to work? Ah, Mr Weller, that's where you are so wrong. It will this time.
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