Finally, The Arab League May Take Responsibility For The Mid East

Among the best news of the decade happened the other day when the leaders of countries in the 22 nation Arab League agreed to the principle of creating a joint Arab military force at a summit in Egypt on Sunday. Saudi Arabia is already leading air strikes in Yemen, so this agreement is probably more than rhetorical combat. Yep! Instead of sitting and watching the U.S. and a few others police the crazy extremists groups that are running rampant in the Mid east, and then complaining about the U.S. help and economic investment there after help is given, the Islamic nations will do some of their own policing.

The league says that it will "establish a voluntary military force that can counter challenges that threaten the safety and security of any member, based on a request from that state." In other words "those crazy Isis nuts and the other terrorists are now threatening our governments very existence, so given the weakness of the U.S. under Obama, we will finally defend ourselves". This signifies that the United States is no longer a reliable protector for the dictators of Arab states like Saudi Arabia. That is a decidedly good thing.

It's a good thing for the U.S. because too long it has been wasting money and human lives in a fruitless cause to stop terrorists that the Arab nations themselves were funding, all under the phony declaration to the American people that the "Terrorists must be stopped there or they will fight here". Now that the terrorists are getting too big to control in the Mid East, Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Arab League have decided to assume responsibility for their own area that they should have assumed long ago. Surely, they are wealthy enough and well enough equipped to do their own fighting.

If the U.S is smart it will pull back in the Mid East as quickly as possible, including stopping firing those drones that Obama loves to use against anyone within 100 miles of where the drone may land (Drones today have about a 20%  accuracy and, thus, kill many innocents). Taking troops and equipment from the areas (Saudi Arabia should have been financing the past U.S military wars there anyway) should be an economic opportunity for the United States. More importantly, it could mean that the U.S would finally stop trying to be the world's policemen and instead start insist that nations handle their own military crisis situations.

I have long called, well before 911, for the U.S. to take a more isolationist policy in regard to world affairs.  Taking the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as an example, one has to wonder why the U.S. ever got involved. A war mad president (Bush) pushed for it in 2001, but the U.S. Congress, using its typically cowardly methodology, allowed itself to be cowed into approving U.S. military involvement then and until today to "get the terrorists responsible for 911". But now the public has wised up and is no longer cheering the war cries of politicians here. Politicians approve policies that garner the votes. No longer is fighting in the Mid East popular with U.S. voters.

In 2001 I opposed the Bush war with a simple question, "Why should we fight a war against two factions of extremists, one Shiite and the other Sunni Muslim"? I say, let the nuts there kill each other if they want to do that. It's no business of an outsider, the U.S or anyone else, to join their crazy fight while the dictators of those nations sit and watch. Religious wars like the on-going Muslim conflicts are often the most illogical, brutal and lasting fights.

They are not a fight an outsider should want to join. Here's hoping the U.S will withdraw as fast as possible. Let's simply watch the Muslims fight their own civil war to determine their own fate .