16 Years Of Failed Leadership, Iraq, Afghanistan And Two Presidents

                                          If only the United States had wise, ethical leadership. First there was George Bush, who learned nothing from the Vietnam war. The whole country has been made to suffer the price of arrogant elitists that were convinced they had the magical powers to transform Iraq into a pro western democracy. War destroys. It does not create. We were told that if we did not go to war, Saddam Hussein was about to get his hands on nuclear weapons that he would use. We were lied to, we unknowing people that did not have access to information other than what the elitists and the mindless press provided.
                                         After 9-11, the United States people were told their only obligation was to shop. Uninspiring, incompetent, arrogant leadership could not think of anything better. Later, George Bush proudly announced the war in Iraq was won, but in reality it was only the beginning of a war that persists to this day. When Iraq was initially occupied by the United States, order should have been restored immediately. Instead there was rioting and looting, which the too arrogant to be in touch with reality Rumsfeld declared was an expression of freedom. The mistakes of Iraq kept compounding each other. Baathist party civil servant employees, including teachers, were fired, providing an unemployed disenfranchised population ripe for the continuation of war.
                                         Enter Obama, who instead of addressing the chaos and mess George Bush and company left behind, chose a speedy withdrawal, knowing that there is a consequence for leaving behind a vacuum. It was not he and his band of incompetents that felt the consequence. Instead, it has been the hundreds of thousands of innocent people, including people from minority religions like the Yazidis, that have been the victims of genocide, mass rape, sexual slavery. The United States created a mess, and instead of restoring order, ran, leaving behind others to suffer in the ensuing chaos and violence.
                                            The United States lost focus in Afghanistan when it chose unnecessarily to go to war in Iraq. The Afghanistan war itself has been a series of mistakes for which, like Iraq, no one is held accountable. The Taliban was Saudi sponsored. Why was a full scale ground invasion necessary, as opposed to other steps that could have been taken? Why was no pressure brought upon the Saudis. who were the funders and sponsors of the Taliban, to say nothing of the fact that almost all the 9-11 terrorists were Saudis? More than 15 years later, the United States is caught in the quagmire of Afghanistan, with no end to the war in sight.
                                            Those political leaders still in power, regardless of the countries, that were advocates or cheerleaders for these wars, should no longer be in power. Yet some still are, because incompetents have a way of going on and on. The same applies for those fools in the media and elsewhere that should have raised concerns.
                                              Foolish and incompetent leadership only make matters worse in this day and age of nuclear proliferation and rising Islamic fanaticism, intolerance and terror.