Source: Antiwar.com
by Scott Horton
“Though Iraq War I had allegedly been fought to protect the Saudi monarchy, Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda had been enraged at the king’s rejection of their offer to liberate Kuwait from Iraq in favor of his allowing the Americans to station their mostly white, Christian combat forces on holy Arabian soil to do so. So as ‘payback,’ the U.S. would back their Arab allies from the Soviet-Afghan War of the 1980s in another war, this time in Europe. President Clinton wrote that ‘standing up for the Bosnians had another benefit to the United States: it would demonstrate to Muslims the world over that the United States cared about them, respected Islam, and would support them if they rejected terror and embraced the possibilities of peace and reconciliation.’ This goes to show Clinton’s vastly displaced priorities and hypocrisy.” (12/24/24)
https://original.antiwar.com/scott/2024/12/23/will-backing-terrorists-backfire-again/