(Newswire.net — August 31, 2015) — After military interventions in Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan, people are not so sure, there is now a better place to live. In fact, many agree it is even worse.
“During those ‘dark times’ while Gadhafi ruled Libya, Tripoli was decorated with portraits of its ruler, Zoran Modli, a Serbian pilot remembers. “The cars were quietly sliding around a green oasis in the center of Gadhafi’s residence, the streets of this university city on the coast echoed by cheerful murmur of tens of thousands universities and high schools students,” said Modli for Newswire, describing Tripoli as the city he could definitely settle down. Being a pilot Modly saw the majority of world’s capitals, but Tripoli with its charm resembled to Belgrade, his own home town, that on a long list of scars added a new ones from the US-led air raid called “Merciful Angel.”
“Today, Libya is a ‘normal country’ with occasional car bomb blasts, smoke rising from burning houses, streets echoes with screams of mutilated men, women and children, and that dark clouds rising from the Libyan oil fields, reminded me what I always knew: That it is oil running through Jesus’ veins, and not blood,” Modli told Newswire.
Other countries in the Middle East, recently liberated from their dictators and resources, measures the price of the democracy, wondering whether it is safer today than before.
“No, Iraq is not safer today than it was under Saddam Hussein,” Octavia Nasr, journalist, Born and rose in the Middle East, responded to a blog of an Iraqi professor’s son. “I started my career as a war correspondent in Under Hussein the danger came from a bloody dictatorship, international sanctions and isolation. Now, the danger comes from a broken government, bloody terrorism, sectarian strife, regional turmoil, political instability and a country in shambles. Add to that hundreds of thousands of refugees dispersed around the world facing an uncertain future. The situation in Iraq is bleaker than many are willing to admit!” Nasr stressed.
Syrian story is far from a conclusion, and the Afghanistan is so poor in resources only about 25% of its residents have the electricity, but has the asset maybe more worth than oil. According to BBC report, 90% of world’s Opium, main ingredient for Heroin production, comes from Afghanistan opium fields.
Today, there are no power plants construction sites in Afghanistan, no educational programs, or any other signs of improvement after US military intervention.
Although there were some difficulties over the years, Americans’ perceptions that US involvement in Afghanistan was a mistake rose as the war continued, according to Gallup. The “mistake” percentage reached 25% in 2004, and surpassed 30% for the first time in 2008, and 40% in 2010.
In its World Affairs survey report from Sep. 2014, the number of Americans who believe war in the Afghanistan was a mistake raised above ones who justify the action.