Why does it seem like the middle east was much more stable before we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan?

Question

Opium output skyrockets in Afghanistan
more than a million dead Iraqis with no sign of stopping
Pakistan declared martial law
Israel and Hezballa fighting

The war on terror is a fraud

Answer 1

Specifically, last sentence--I couldn't agree with you more.
Our anarchist was fixated on Iraq; he "neglected" Afghanistan. I believe the US provides a billion a year to Pakistan, whatever shall the fools here do now?
This abomination was a fraud from the start. We're learning just a little of the deceit that, believed, gave our "leader" permission to invade Iraq. Now, the Congress, as misled as the rest of us, is being blamed. WMD didn't exist, & we know that. Will anyone fall for Iran's nuclear weapons? We have no PROOF, but will that stop further fallacious "preemptive" strikes?
I'm reassured that you mentioned the Iraqi dead, they seem to have been overlooked. Our troops are worn thin; the US doesn't even care for them when they return physically & psychologically injured.
To say that the Middle East has always been in conflict is irrelevant. Iraqis (I know personally) will tell anyone they were far better off with Saddam. The US has broken national, & international laws. We don't have a dictatorship, we have anarchism.
No one ever said the Middle East was a "peaceful paradise." Our greed, (& psychotic revenge of GWB) has created what we have now. Pgb makes a foolish analogy; Hitler is NO comparison.
9/11 has nothing to do with this, except to use as fear tactics.
The "Middle East" attacked us? Hello? Yes, the earth is flat, & man never walked on the moon.
Some intelligent answers--but the rest--hide your heads in the sand until WWIII--when it will be too late.
Thank you, Zelda. My quote is one of wisdom, not psychotic recklessness.

Answer 2

There have always been problems in the Middle East, but when the US got involved we escalated them. Now we're getting involved in Iran, who in 2005 attempted a sit down talk with Bush over their relationship, hoping to aid it - and we just ignored them. It's no wonder the Middle East hates us, we turned around and called Iran the axis of evil within months of them helping us to elect American approved leaders for Afghanistan and look for Osama, not to mention Iran and Saddam hated one another. We have turned Iraq into an area of no structure, something it at least had even if under a dictatorship. The problem is America doesn't see the Middle East as another country with culture and people, the Middle East has become solely an area of resource.

Answer 3

i'm going to understate the priority. Democracy did not flower as estimated by potential of Bush, Cheney and Rice. the only sturdy information is that Iran won't be that a procedures alongside with its nuclear weapons application. Israel has stepped forward weapons,and the between the suitable geared up militia forces interior the international consistent with threat they might manage the priority of their neighbor, Iran, basically as China is assisting with the N Korea nuclear difficulty.

Answer 4

There is no terror or terrorists standing there in the middle east and is waiting for attacking America, America's government was the beginner as it was its political and economical views about middle east as they have lot of resources needed by this government, also America's government was the creator of Ben laden's emperor the BIGGEST TERRORIST AROUND THE WORLD ..... :D:D:D, as they wanted at the 90's beginning to fight Russia in Afghanistan in a hidden way. All of what is going on now is fighting on the resources of the middle east in a hidden way not on the terrorists like it is declared now.

Answer 5

Nothing like a dictatorship for stability.
Opium production skyrockets because no one ever went broke feeding addictions.
Israel and Hezbollah will be fighting for the next sixty years, at least.
Saddam killed quite a few Iraqis too, not to mention the slaughter of the Kurds.
The war on terror is necessary, the means we have used, invasion of foreign countries, is not what the problem called for.
But as I said, dictatorships are stable, until the dictator dies.

Answer 6

The destabilizing of Afghanistan probably started with the Soviet invasion and continued with our backing the Mujahaddin, then the growth of the Taliban. Why can't we just wipe out those poppy fields now?
I'm not defending the phony and very dangerous war in Iraq. As my Contact Valac Gypsy says on her 360 "It is a bad plan that admits no modification."

Answer 7

Ditto hotpepper until 9/11 most people watched a bombing or two a week in Israel and wondered why those living in the contested areas couldn't learn to live in peace and harmony.

The last year alone should serve to show anyone watching that these extremists can't even get along with each other.
Hamas and Hezbollah after each other and in Iraq they bomb hell out of the special mosques that belong to each other and it has been this way since antiquity.
And it will still be this way long after the grandchildren of the youngest person reading this are long turned to dust because that is what FANATIC means.

Answer 8

Seems like is right. It's because when we weren't involved over there, their was no point in mentioning anything that happened there on the news. When we had no interests in the region, it wasn't useful information. People were dying in large numbers and their were problems in the Middle East all through our non-intervention; it's a mistake to pretend it was some peaceful paradise that went bad because of our actions.

The Afghanisan economy has been rocked, for most farmers Opium is a means to put food on the table for their family.

Answer 9

Iraq used to be predominatly Sunny and Iran used to be predominantly Shiite. For years we were just supplied weapons and instigated Iraq to fight Iran. Saddam Hussein used to be our allied force. Now thar we bring him down, the Shiite from Iran and other Arab countries are creeping over to Iraq to fight with the Sunny creating a chaotic situation.

Answer 10

The only thing I see out of the things you listed that may possibly be related to the War on Terror is the dead Iraqis. Other than that, what is your correlation of U.S. involvement and the other events? Who is to say that these events wouldn't have existed without the U.S. being involved in Iraq and Afghanistan? The Middle East has always had conflict.