In 1988 Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote "The Grand Chessboard" a prescient piece on our hegemony in Eurasia. I think as far as our hegemony in the Middle east is concerned, our invasion of Iraq was a critical error empowering Iran. Dr. Brzezinski would probably agree. It also empowered Al Ouida thruout the middle east and the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Bush foreign policy will likely go down in history as the turning point in the decline on US influence in the middle east.
We are now standing by as one middle eastern country after another is rebelling against rulers that maintained control over the needs and desires of increasingly restive populations with military hardware supplied mostly by us.
It is interesting to contemplate; what if we had not invaded Iraq would the Iraq people have rebelled on their own, along with their Arab Spring neighbors?
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"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary." R.N.
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