I am surprised that you didn't know that PNAC ... Project for a New American Century... spelled out very clearly that the USA intended to destroy 7 countires in the middle east. already in 1998. Richard Perle's ..A Clean Break also advocates much the same thing.
Only Iran and a small part of Syria are left to be destroyed.
That is all you need to know. All policies were designed to make a safer place for Israel.

Firstly the cut Tom has reported is actually 26.3%. _2. I am a Canadian of German ancestry. Sadly I have come to the conclusion that the Germans of today are among the greatest idiots _ in the Western world. Instead of quarreling with the Russians they should become business partners. Germany has a surplus of managerial and technological expertise, but few natural resources. Russia on the other had lacks the expertise but has huge natural resources. Both countries would benefit enormously from a friendly business partnership.

In Vietnam everybody was wrong. It was wrong to start the war, and wrong to maintain it for 10years,
Afghanistan is precisely the same...grosss stupidity from the beginning.
Osama has been laughing the whole time. The longer the war lasts the better for Al Quaeda
America is a civilzation in decline and Afghanistan(s) just serve to speed up the decay.