Quote Originally Posted by AdmiralAdama View Post
Iran has been at war with the United States since 1979. I believe that the "everything bad in the world can be traced back to US blunders" theory is simply not respectful of our opponents -- their ideology, their goals, and their strategies to carry them out.
Which opponents? Which ideology, Which goals? Seems to me there are buckets full of all those. They do have one strategy factor in common; beating us in the info and world opinion games -- which they're doing quite handily.

I'd agree with you that that US blunders are minor and all could have been or even can be ameliorated. All the blunders of commission, that is. As for the blunders of omission (Specifically and to wit: ignoring the problem and trying to play fairly in the western way with people who have different rules); I submit they pretty much led to the amorphous fusion of many disparate ideologies and goals being able to have the traction they have.