{"id":5848,"date":"2015-02-20T06:14:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T11:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5848"},"modified":"2015-02-20T06:14:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T11:14:08","slug":"since-911-the-u-s-has-been-involved-in-more-than-5-wars-and-theyve-all-been-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5848","title":{"rendered":"Since 9\/11, The U.S. Has Been Involved In More Than 5 Wars \u2026 And They\u2019ve All Been Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/02\/since-911-u-s-5-wars-theyve-disasters.html\" target=\"_blank\">Since 9\/11, The U.S. Has Been Involved In More Than 5 Wars \u2026 And They\u2019ve All Been Disasters<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>Why Does America Keep \u201cLosing\u201d Its Wars?<\/h3>\n<p>Below, we demonstrate that the U.S. keeps \u201closing\u201d war after war.<\/p>\n<p>There are 3 potential reasons this might be happening:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is this chaos an\u00a0<a title=\"intentional way\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/06\/mess-iraq-design.html\"><em>intentional<\/em>\u00a0way<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<a title=\"implement regime change\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/09\/u-s-already-completed-regime-change-syria-iran-iraq-twice-oil-rich-countries.html\">implement regime change<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"grab resources\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/01\/study-foreign-countries-intervene-civil-wars-100-times-often-afflicted-countries-oil.html\">grab resources<\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Or is this a sign of the decline of the American empire \u2026 and we just can\u2019t win a war anymore?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Or do those in charge just\u00a0<a title=\"not\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/10\/cia-study-funding-rebels-rarely-works.html\">not<\/a>\u00a0really\u00a0<a title=\"give a damn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/12\/leaked-internal-cia-document-admits-us-drone-program-counterproductive-obama-anyway.html\">give a damn<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"about winning\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/01\/paris-terror-attack-isis-result-911-cover.html\">about winning<\/a>\u00a0\u2026 and are they just focusing on one short-term goal after another?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We\u2019ll let you decide\u00a0<em>why\u00a0<\/em>you think this keeps happening. But if you don\u2019t believe that the U.S. has been losing its recent wars, read on \u2026<\/p>\n<h3>U.S. Keeps Messing Up<\/h3>\n<p>We\u00a0<a title=\"noted\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/07\/iraq-afghanistan-libya-countries-u-s-regime-changed-going-chaos.html\">noted<\/a>\u00a0last year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since 2001, the U.S. has undertaken regime change in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.<\/p>\n<p>All 3 countries are now in\u00a0<em>chaos<\/em>\u00a0\u2026 and extremists are\u00a0<em>more in control than ever<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>Iraq<\/h3>\n<p>In Iraq, hardcore Islamic jihadis known as ISIS have taken over much of the country \u2013 shown in red as the new \u201cIslamic State\u201d or self-described caliphate \u2013\u00a0<a title=\"using captured American weapons\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/07\/isis-taking-iraq-using-captured-american-weapons.html\">using captured American weapons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"decoded aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/territorial_control_of_the_isis-svg.png?w=1580&amp;h=1206\" alt=\"http:\/\/heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/territorial_control_of_the_isis-svg.png?w=640&amp;h=489\" width=\"790\" height=\"603.6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>USA Today notes: \u201c<a title=\"Iraq is already splitting into three states\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2014\/07\/28\/iraq-divided-into-three-states\/13165519\/?utm_source=feedblitz&amp;utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&amp;utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories\" target=\"_blank\">Iraq is already splitting into three states<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>Christians are being rounded up and killed, and Christian leaders in Iraq say the end of Christianity in Iraq is<a title=\" \u201cvery near\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/iraq-crisis-bishop-of-baghdad-warns-end-could-be-very-near-for-christianity-after-isis-takeover-9630554.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u201cvery near\u201d<\/a>. But as we documented in 2012, Saddam Hussein \u2013 for all his faults \u2013 was a\u00a0<a title=\"secular leader who tolerated Christians\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2012\/08\/u-s-government-is-prosecuting-christians.html\">secular leader who tolerated Christians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 9\/11, The U.S. Has Been Involved In More Than 5 Wars \u2026 And They\u2019ve All Been Disasters Why Does America Keep \u201cLosing\u201d Its Wars? Below, we demonstrate that the U.S. keeps \u201closing\u201d war after war. There are 3 potential reasons this might be happening: Is this chaos an\u00a0intentional\u00a0way\u00a0to\u00a0implement regime change\u00a0and\u00a0grab resources? Or is this [&hellip;]<\/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":[10,2487,442,446,447,484,776,827,862],"class_list":["post-5848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-10","tag-afghanistan","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-libya","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848","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=5848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5849,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions\/5849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}