All the first Gulf War did was set the stage for the second Bush

All the first Gulf War did was set the stage for the second Bush Administration to capitalize on the notion that Iraq had an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. Whether or not Suddam Hussein had those weapons really isn't the issue. What the United States did was use fear mongering like Trump is doing today to induce reprisals based on the presumption and premonition that weapons stones sharp of mass destruction are readily available and pose an immediate threat to Americans. Hence, we invaded Iraq, destabilized a whole country, and toppled a regime leaving behind a cancer of secular Islamic groups that became indoctrinated in the Khomeini's radical interpretation of the Quran. All of this gave rise to Al-Qaeda groups seizing the momentum of hatred toward the West and the US. In 1993 the first wave of Islamic terror struck. The bombing of the World Trade Center shook the nation leaving behind structural damage to the Twin Towers so that by 9/11 when the second wave of terror hit the devastation was complete. Not since that day of infamy more than a half century earlier has the United States experience such terror.

We have to always remember that when rulers of countries become so entrenched the power they wield soon becomes corrupt. When absolute power is held that power is absolutely corrupted. Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya and many other stones sharp accountants nations whose rulers are so entrenched it is the majority of their own citizens who suffer and want the most. The same thing can be said of the United States where we have embedded politicians who continue to beholden to the power brokers who bankroll campaigns.

In the aftermath of the spring of 2011 which is now called the Arab Spring, when civil war broke out in Syria, the United States again instigated a coupe to topple another long standing ruler in Libya which only further encroached on the delicate imbalance in the Middle East. What we have now in the Mid-East is a quandary of contingencies that at any moment could spark a global fire ball. The United States has only itself to blame because of our intrusion in the affairs of other nations. The greed and gluttony of our reluctance to eliminate our dependency stones sharp on oil has been the focal point of our foreign policies and military actions that have continued to now backfire right in our face. The revenue that Mid-Eastern Oil brings into the coffers of the major conglomerates is the dominating factor over the many foreign policies that continue to not only keep the flow of oil flowing but instigates reprisals in the form of rouge terrorist attacks right here in the US. What we did following the first evidence of open revolt in Egypt with the overthrow of Libya's Gaddafi is instrumental to understand why many in the Mid-East still have misgivings about the intentions and even harbor an open resentment of the United States. We are paying the piper for it today.