from evil to madness in the name of freedom

Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria .....

Already in 1988, when the still existing Soviet Union gave up the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan, there was great enthusiasm in the United States and amongst NATO member states to have replaced a brutal dictatorship (with Soviet backrest) by a completely unmanageable chaos of more or less fanatical, criminal and internal warring fractions - everything from local tribal leaders to drug-funded Islamist fighters (who later came to represent the seeds of Al-Qaeda)
But except from the Afghan dictatorship which had bet on the wrong horse, most brutal dictators in the Islamic part of the world were allowed to continue - even after the fall of the Soviet Union.

First, Bush II (George Walker Bush) took freedom as his main agenda for foreign politics and started a new crusade against unfriendly minded dictatorships - after (probably) Al-Qaeda had attacked the United States using hijacked airliners.

As the Taliban directly brayed about giving shelter to Al-Qaeda, driving the Taliban out of Afghanistan was quite reasonable.Worse it was however, as Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein, who already had been seriously punished by Bush I (George Herbert Walker Bush) after the attack on Kuwait, now not only was to be thrown from power but also to be killed, in the shelter of the excitement over the apparently swift victory over the Taliban in Afghanistan. Although Saddam Hussein nothing had to do with the attack on the World Trade Center or Al Qaeda, this horrid dictator was the first in a series of men who were removed from power – after the US partly had supported them in the past, like Saddam Hussein himself. (Among others TheWashington Post believes that son George was to avenge father George,as Saddam Hussein had tried to get Bush I assassinated: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/iraq/timeline/062793.htm)

After Saddam was hanged, the powerful longtime dictators in the Islamic world began to falter under the pressure of a chaotic mix of popular rebellion caused by dissatisfaction with economic conditions, increased religious fanaticism and ethnic conflicts - accompanied by strong support for the insurgency from the West. Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was bombed from power by NATO warplanes (the Danish F16 taking part had the assignment to hit Gaddafi himself, but did not succeed)

 - since Syria's Bashar Al-Assad has come under severe pressure from also Western-backed rebel groups.Egypt had its revolution which at the moment is rolled back by a new dictator.

Meanwhile Iraq is currently transformed into a Afghan-style political, religious and ethnic chaos of - with oil wells beneath it all ... 

The fact that Denmark under Bush II's good friend Anders Fogh Rasmussen was involved in many of these chaos-promoting measures, has apparently not resulted in deeper reflection by Western leaders (Denmark included).

In a sad look back at the aforementioned disasters that Denmark has contributed actively to, with some cynical calculation one might hope to that Russias / Putin's aggressive foreign policy will guide NATO and thus Denmark back to a more locally oriented "Home Guard project" which will hopefully understand its limitations better than the global "freedom agenda" which did not bring lasting freedom - only lasting chaos for millions of people who can not escape neither their dictators, nor local warlords, crazed mullahs or local criminal gang leaders ...