GLOBAL INSTABILITY IN THE FACE OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISM

Each evening we turn on the television to the evening news to see more and more horrendous and despicable acts of violence committed in the name of Islam.  Many sit and wonder how this has come about and where did things go so wrong.. The answer is not palatable but it is simple. We are to blame..The United States, and our allies.

The facts are that for many years countries like Iraq, Syria,Libya,  Iran and even the Philippines were ruled by military dictatorships that ruled with share absolute brutality.  Their acts for years honestly did not bother us and in fact  many times we were aligned with these dictators if we needed a "friend" in the region.  The bottom line is we could not care what was going on there as long as their acts are committed against their own people and done so quietly out of sight of the media.  Once people like Sadaam Hussein, Qadaffi,  and others like them began to start threatening U.S. citizens or citizens of our Western allies did we decide to remove them from office.  The problem in doing so is that it is always better to face the enemy you do know verses the enemy you don't.

After removing people like Hussein and Qadaffi out of office we did not have an exit strategy nor did we know if the people taking over had the strength and support of their people to rule. Most of the those who have replaced these brutal dictators have been a joke and are swept from office the minute we leave their soil.  This has been how ISIS has risen to take power.  The sad fact is that if the killing and barbarity were solely committed on those of their fellow countrymen and done so because they opposed their regime we would not care as long as their was no hostilities against us or our allies.  What we have now is the worst possible situation numerous countries without centralized strong governments taken over and ruled not by people of their country but from all over with one commonality religion.  The fact is that people like Sadaam Hussein kept these people in line by showing zero tolerance.  Now you have people from all over the world whose only commonality is their blind violent devotion to Islam. With no centralized government, or military forces a small group of thugs and extremist is able to take over a country why because there is no internal military to put these people down.

We as a nation created the current political instability.  We will see more and more spreading of this movement anywhere there is no organized legitimate government and a military supporting that government.The fact is that democracy can not work in these countries when all they have ever known is a dictatorship. You don't see ISIS rise up in Jordan or Saudi Arabia because their monarchies will immediately and brutally destroy any opposition with share ruthless and brutal efficiency.  This is how they stay in power and this is how Qadaffi and Hussein stand in power until we toppled them.  Like I said sometimes the enemy we know and can control is far better than the enemy we don't.