{"id":17153,"date":"2016-01-31T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17153"},"modified":"2016-01-31T10:09:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T15:09:46","slug":"western-warmongers-have-all-the-answers-and-theyre-all-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17153","title":{"rendered":"Western warmongers have all the answers, and they’re all wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Western warmongers have all the answers, and they’re all wrong<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The wars in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan failed not because of noble errors, but because short-sighted Western interests trumped the needs of the people. And this is why the creeping return to war will fail again<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Despite an almost total lack of public debate, Western military escalation in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya is on the rise.<\/p>\n

Renewed military interventionism has been largely justified as a response to the meteoric rise of Islamic State networks, spreading across parts of the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia.<\/p>\n

Missing from government pronouncements, though, is any acknowledgement that the proliferation of Islamist terrorism is a direct consequence of the knee-jerk response of military escalation.<\/p>\n

Discarded to the memory hole is the fact that before each of the major interventions in these three countries, our political leaders promised they would bring security, freedom and prosperity.<\/p>\n

Instead, they have done precisely the opposite.<\/p>\n

White man\u2019s burden for Afghan freedom<\/strong><\/p>\n

In October 2001, as US special forces were roaming Afghanistan in the search for Osama bin Laden, Max Boot \u2013 a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations – wrote\u00a0a gushing article in the Weekly Standard titled,\u00a0The Case for American Empire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfghanistan and other troubled lands today cry out for the sort of enlightened foreign administration once provided by self-confident Englishmen in jodhpurs and pith helmets,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOccupation would be a temporary expedient to allow the people to get back on their feet until a responsible, humane, preferably democratic, government takes over\u2026 Is this an ambitious agenda? Without a doubt. Does America have the resources to carry it out? Also without a doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fifteen years into the war in Afghanistan, it is patently clear that this imperial dream is nothing more than a self-soothing fantasy.<\/p>\n

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Western warmongers have all the answers, and they’re all wrong The wars in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan failed not because of noble errors, but because short-sighted Western interests trumped the needs of the people. And this is why the creeping return to war will fail again Despite an almost total lack of public debate, Western […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2487,442,1239,446,447,484,522,6741,2092,827,6648,965],"class_list":["post-17153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-afghanistan","tag-iraq","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-libya","tag-middle-east","tag-middle-east-eye","tag-nafeez-ahmed","tag-united-states","tag-warmongers","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17155,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17153\/revisions\/17155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}