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FOOLS RUSH WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD: US INVASION OF IRAQ

FOOLS RUSH IN WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD (US INVASION OF IRAQ)


[USA has been too busy attacking others than minding its own business at home.]








The following news item set me thinking:


--http://www.zeenews.com/news686413.html





I have reproduced it below. It merely confirms what sages have said for centuries—“Pride hath a fall”. USA has been too proud of its might. It ignored the age old wisdom that “Afghanistan has been the graveyard of many an army” and got bogged down in Afghanistan. It ignored the advice not to invade Iraq and got bogged down in Iraq. Spending billions to attack others would naturally cause a dollar crunch at home, though the real estate sub-prime market might have precipitated the economic collapse. I have addressed the issue of the American financial crisis in the following article:





-- THE AMERICAN FINANCIAL CRISIS—"AMERICAN FINANCIAL CRISIS:14 questions "            


[What is the cause of the US financial crisis?]








It is a pity that while wasting money abroad invading others, USA ignored education and health at home.





As regards education, the American education standards are so poor that school kids do not know basic mathematics. I have addressed this point in:





-- MATHEMATICAL KIDS—"MATHEMATICAL KIDS" , 


[Finish your mathematics homework, lest the children in India make you starve!]





As regards the American health care system, it is so weird that 25-30% people in USA don’t have access to health care. When Obama tried to reduce this to 5%, his health care reforms plan was shot down by the Republicans, whose government was responsible for the Afghan and Iraq invasions and the consequent economic collapse inherited by Obama.





The American consumerist culture tends to encourage people to consume rather than to produce and preserve. The irony is that most of what is consumed in USA comes from China and Taiwan (diverse home gadgets, including even children’s toys); Japan (cars); , Central or Lain America (farm produce; clothes etc.) or the Middle East (oil). Work culture seems to be missing. Pretty little is produced at home with the exception of porn and guns. All that the USA gives to others is weapons because Americans seem to be too much obsessed with guns and killing. Some of that killing takes place in schools also. I have highlighted this in:





-- SCHOOL SHOOTINGS—"SCHOOL SHOOTINGS"  ,


[An analytical discussion about the school and college campus shootings in USA]





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EXCERPTS FROM THE NEWS ITEM REFERRED ABOVE





“Mubarak warned US not to invade Iraq: US cable”


February 11, 2011, 00:52





London: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had warned the US not to invade Iraq for "you won’t be able to get out", but Washington had refused to heed his advice, according to a secret US diplomatic cable.





"Mubarak said that when President Bush Sr. had called and asked what Mubarak thought about invading Iraq to get to rid of Saddam Hussein during the first Gulf war, Mubarak had told him not to because 'you won’t be able to get out and you will drown in Iraq,” according to cables released by WikiLeaks.





"I told (Vice President) Cheney three or four times that Iraq needed a strong leader and that it would be unwise to remove Saddam Hussein; doing so would only 'open the gate to Iran,'" Mubarak was quoted as saying in the secret document.





Unfortunately, he said, "the vice-president did not listen to his advice."





Mubarak said he had tried to convey the same message to the current administration, only to be ignored. By ignoring his advice and invading Iraq, Mubarak warned that the Americans had managed to increase the threat posed by Iran. Mubarak made the comments during a breakfast meeting with US congressmen at the presidential palace in Cairo in December, 2008.





He told a member of the delegation, Senator Byron Dorgan, that the US needed to "listen to its friends" in the region. "When George Bush Senior was president, 'he listened to my advice. But his son does not,'" he said, according to the US cable sent on January 14, 2009.





Mubarak said he had tried to convey the same message to the current administration, only to be ignored.





"By making these mistakes, the US has empowered Iran, whose goal, according to Mubarak, is 'to control the entire region," the cable said.





He [Mubarak] added that Iran is waiting for the US to leave Iraq in order to 'fill the vacuum and emphasised that Iran is the source of funds for many extremist groups in the region, such as Hizbollah, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, according to the report.”








M C Gupta


11 February 2011