Sins of the Predecessors

Roosting War Hawks

When I look at the Middle East throwing off the oppressions of past regimes everywhere it is clear to me that there is an organizing force rejecting all regimes who have heretofore been cozily suppressing the people in alliance with some western interests which interests the masses view as impoverishing them.
Then it becomes even more clear to me that our previous foreign policy, particularly the Bush-Cheney "pre-emptive war" and completely fraudulent deceptive invasion of Iraq over made up photo-shopped UN presentations and falsified intelligence in which Neo-Cons deserved their name by conning the world into believing WMDs existed anywhere but in the empty threat to keep out Iran from Iraq, or that OBL (Osama Bin Laden) controlled a secular government under that Sad-man Hussein in any respect fuelled in part what we are here witnessing. In what measure I am not certain but we should own it and deal with it responsibly. The Arab world should not hold America or Americans responsible for what a previous rogue administration did outside International law. We should support International legal structures that bring some accountability for this even if it means clearing house at the State Dept.
In all the wisdom and understanding about conflict resolution, Bush-Cheney's in your face, kill first ask questions later, would so obviously naturally precipitate this sort of reaction. It is astounding that we have not prosecuted Torture at the highest levels. It is astounding that we
insist that no one committed any war crimes in this country when we sent off to 'secret rendition'
people to be threatened with boiling in oil in Uzbekestan. It is unbelievable that with completely made up intelligence we invaded a country that had, even if you believe the official story line, nothing whatsoever to do with 911 (there were no Iraqi hijackers) who did not ask us in - to solve what the business negotiators could not do in getting favorable oil concessions from Saddam Hussein.
If we do not wish to reap the ire of the arab world which looks like it does have a central organizing force, be it the Muslim Brotherhood or some other body of theocrats, we need to hold accountable people in this country who slaughtered millions of people in countries we had no right to launching invasions in on any moral dimension. If we don't prosecute them, God help Spain if it doesn't.