Money,Oil, Business As Usual; The Unholy Alliance Of The West And Jihad Backers

Hatred, bigotry and intolerance, combined with the justification and eagerness to use violence(violent jihad) in all its forms, including the use of terror and deliberate attacks against unarmed civilians, is burning out of control and fueling wars and conflict. But the west has made grave mistakes that have exacerbated all of this. The actions and wrongs of one side are not an excuse for the actions and wrongs of the other, because two wrongs never make a right. And neither are the actions of the other side an excuse to not have accountability. Why did we go to war in Iraq? Saddam Hussein was already contained, and the reason the American people were sold on the war- that he was about to get weapons of mass destruction- proved to be untrue or even a lie. Why did we allow anarchy to prevail after we won the war and were then the occupying force? How did we prove to be so incompetent and inept at administering Iraq, and why was no one held accountable for these mistakes? Did our leaving Iraq too soon contribute to the genocide now occurring against Yazidis, Christians, moderate Muslims and others? Why did we fire all Baathist employees, including teachers and administrators, and thereby deprive them of any reason to want to cooperate? Now it is said that the ISIS leadership is drawn largely from former Baathist officials. Did our failures and incompetence, including the firing of all Baathist officials and employees, contribute to the rise of ISIS? Why did we commit to a full scale invasion of Afghanistan when we already knew no foreign country ever succeeded in occupying Afghanistan, including the Soviets and British empire? Why were we so arrogant to think we were any different? More than 15 years later, we are still stuck there. Was there a way that we could have better responded? We knew there was the northern alliance already fighting the Taliban. We knew that our ally, the Saudis, were the Taliban's major supporter and had enormous leverage over them. We knew that most of the 911 hijackers were Saudis. Why did we fail then, why do we fail now, in not holding the Saudis and other oil rich gulf states responsible for the rigid, intolerant form of Islam they are aggressively spreading all over the world? Is money, oil and business and business as usual that important?