[Dean's World] Dean: America's Greatest Betrayals

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Posted by Dean:
America's Greatest Betrayals
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1159153168.shtml


   I believe that in 1991, one of America's greatest shames occurred. And
   it happened on [1]George Herbert Walker Bush's watch as President. You
   know, our current President's father? I seriously think it was one of
   America's most shameful moments. In the last 225+ years of this
   Republic, it was truly one of our most awful moments.

   After we had driven Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, we openly encouraged
   Iraqis who hated Saddam to rebel. The President even said so publicly.
   Then we sat and watched from the sidelines while Saddam's forces cut
   them down like a hot knife through butter. And, except in Kurdistan,
   we sat there and did nothing. He gassed them and cut them down with
   machine guns. We did nothing, because we were afraid of offending our
   Arab allies.

   And in Afghanistan, around the same time? They had driven the Soviets
   out, but we did almost nothing further to support them. It is almost
   as if we left the Free French to die on the beaches of Normandy.

   This is probably why I remain a staunch supporter of the liberation of
   Iraq and Afghanistan. Because it's a promise we made. How shameful,
   how selfish to abandon such promises.

   I cannot express how deeply I love my country. And yet I can think of
   few instances where we so betrayed our principles as Iraq and
   Afghanistan in the early 1990s.

   I have been trying for more than 2 years to get a job in the
   rebuilding authorities in Iraq or Afghanistan. I have so far failed.
   But still, I have to say:

   Could there be a greater betrayal by the people of the United States
   if we were to give up on either of these people? I don't think there
   could be.

References

   1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert_Walker_Bush