We have often talked of the utter failure of the Bush / Cheney regime to confront political Islam in any way - largely out of fear of the reaction of its cognate American pals, the Christian right ...
To cover up his near-treasonous bungling, he and VP Richard "Dick" Cheney instead manufactured a completely non-existent "crisis" in Iraq, and, in order to create a situation where no-bid contracts with their buddies in Haliburton are "necessary," de-stabilize perhaps the most volatile part of the world: the Middle East / Persian Gulf region.
While all this time / money / energy / and emotion are focused on Iraq, meanwhile, the asleep-at-the-wheel clowns in the White House have allowed - right under our noses and in plain sight - the creation of an Islamist redoubt in the heart of the Gulf area in Somalia.
So now Bush has allowed the establishment of the very thing that was so problematic in Taliban Afghanistan: a failed state whose nominal rulers are ardent political Islamists anxious to do anything and everything they can to create problems in the Egypt / Saudi Arabia / Iraq / Gulf region -
the most problematic of which is simply creating a state-protected safe haven where violently inclined Islamists from all ove r the Arab / Muslim world can come to do some "safe house" planning and catch some R&R.
Another success for the Bush / Cheney foreign policy that will also be haunting us for years ... way to go, guys ...
Point One in our World section: Understanding the Middle East and Its Relation to the United States.
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