US democracy is not of universal standard

Those two burning situations are withholding the need for the US troops to leave that Middle East country and memories of the Vietnam crisis come to mind.

The role of the Green Berets in the South East Asian territory (that, like Iraq, was once ruled by France) was a safer measure than that of the GIs. It was felt that President John F Kennedy did not want to take the United States of America to war.

The assassination of JFK, paved the way for the man who succeeded him to set out to halt the spread of communism as a goal.

But the policy to bring the enemy to the bargaining table was not a clear-cut one as the VietCong under Ho Chi Min was able to spread the war throughout Indochina, except North Vietnam and their effort was rewarded in 1975 when the Americans withdrew the bases in South Vietnam.

Nothing is heard of Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, the Pentagon and the aborted attempt to bomb the White House in 2001.

The instructive thing is that Bin Laden was an American ally during the Afghan crisis. So too was Saddam during the Iranian crisis.

Relations became sour when it was found Kuwait was leeching oil from Iraqi wells and a complaint was made before the United Nations.

Note well that democracy as promoted by the US is not of a universal standard to nations that have known dictatorships for decades, even centuries and millenniums.