President Bush has done enough damage in Iraq. Iraq has ended up on the verge of civil war. We read reports of carnage and mayhem daily now. He has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he has neither any understanding of Islam, nor of the the intentions of Muslims worldwide, nor of jihad, nor of the history of the conflict between the Christian and Islamic worlds. As if he hasn't done enough damage already, he now finds it necessary to create havoc with the future of Europe, too!
GWB wanted to bring democracy to the Middle East by imposing it in Iraq. He thought it would spread like a cancer throughout the Middle East. How wrong he was! How naïve! Had he known anything about Islam, he would have known that such an exercise would be futile. Alas, he was not so well-informed.
He is also not well-informed on Europe or Turkey, either. Yet he finds it necessary to meddle in the internal affairs of the European Union, and all in the "interests" of the United States.
I thought Dubya was committed to the concept of democracy? Were he really to be committed, then he would know that democracy functions according to the will of the people. The vast majority of the people of Europe do not want to admit Turkey to their Union, for they know, and understand, that it will be disastrous for the Judeo-Christian culture that Europe has as its underpinning. They know that Islam will spread throughout Europe like wildfire if the Turks ever get the chance to accede. But Bush doesn't give a damn: he soldiers on with his ridiculous and damaging policies, regardless.
Bush should know one thing now: If he is dismayed by the anti-Americanism in Europe today, he needs just to wait to see how anti-American sentiment will grow once Turkey becomes dominant in Europe. And with the population of Turkey set to increase substantially, it will become the dominant power in Europe. Further, if Bush thinks the Turks will thank him in years to come for his support of their application to join, he is deluding himself. Nor need he think that the Europeans will thank him. They won't. George W Bush will have messed up the continent.
It is common knowledge that President Bush is not popular in Europe. Is there any wonder? If Bush continues with this policy, then Europe is destined to become a hotbed of anti-Americanism for many years to come!
President Bush has done enough damage already. For God's sake, don't let him do anymore!
©Mark Alexander
EU OBSERVER: The United States has waded into the debate on the fate of Turkey's EU accession talks, questioning an EU deadline for Ankara to lift a blockade on Cypriot trade while proposing to continue the talks in any case.Mark Alexander
UK daily The Guardian quoted a senior US diplomat as saying that the EU never put a clear-cut deadline on Turkey to open its ports and airports to trade from Cyprus, when the bloc opened formal membership talks with Ankara on 3 October last year. US makes fresh intervention in EU-Turkey row
2 comments:
Before going into Iraq, GWB had no idea as to the hornets' nest he would stir up. As you said, Mark,
he has neither any understanding of Islam, nor of the the intentions of Muslims worldwide, nor of jihad, nor of the history of the conflict between the Christian and Islamic worlds.
Typical of his governing fashion, he has relied on the advice of others. Now, just who are those "others," and have they bothered to do any significant research on Islam. I don't think so!
Of course, I don't sit in the Oval Office, so I have no way of knowing what intelligence GWB might have received before going into Iraq. A long time back, I read that GWB, after coming out from a privately held intelligence briefing, once popped his head into a Cabinet meeting and said, "F**k Saddam! Let's get him!" I have to wonder if that intelligence was simply misinformation or deliberately concocted misinformation.
I slightly disagree with the following:
Iraq has ended up on the verge of civil war.
I say that it's a full-blown civil war!
Were that civil war to keep the Muzzies busy within the borders of Iraq, I'd say, "Let 'em have at each other." But the overall effect has been to inflame the entire Muslim world against the entire West. As if they weren't already inflamed enough by the tenets of Islam!
The situation in Iraq is now a lose-lose situation. Leave and embolden the terrorists, or stay and continue to embolden the terrorists. I can't see a good outcome.
PS: I have more to say, but I don't have time. Work calls. So I will post this comment without proofing it.
Always:
I slightly disagree with the following:
"Iraq has ended up on the verge of civil war."
I say that it's a full-blown civil war!
Well, shall we say I was being cautious! Some reports say 'on the verge of' civil war; others say civil war has begun. In any case, it's a bloody mess; and it's a bloody mess of our own making.
One thing is certain: It is not the stable democracy that GWB envisioned. The sad thing is that he is now trying to bring Turkey into the EU. He is pushing his agenda for all it is worth. One day, Europe, too, will have its own civil war as a result of this stupid move.
I wish GWB would keep his tentacles off Europe, and let the Europeans decide what is best for our continent.
GWB and his cronies (including Tony Blair) will be long out of office, and maybe dead and buried, but future generations of Europeans will be left to pick up the pieces.
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