Leon T. Hadar

Senior Analyst, Wikistratn - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leon-t-hadar/middle-east-foreign-policy_b_1919264.html

Who Really 'Lost' the Middle East?

Posted: 09/27/2012

Remember the one about the kid who killed his parents and then pleaded to the judge for leniency because he was an orphan? Now that's the ultimate chutzpah, you say. But then, you probably have not been following the tale of those foreign policy experts who despite being proven wrong (Big Time!) again and again, insist that they were always right and that they are ready for a repeat performance.

It would probably be a waste of time and space to recall here for the one-hundredth-and-one time the many ways in which the geo-strategic thinkers aka the neoconservatives, who occupied top positions in the administration of President George W. Bush, and who now dominate Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's foreign policy team, had led the United States into one of the most horrendous strategic disasters in American history in the name of doing a "regime change" in Iraq and spreading democracy in the Middle East.
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