The US was prepared to bomb the Middle East into shape. In Ukraine, it seems no less self-serving

In the two decades since the second Iraq war, the United States appears like the Bourbon kings who had learned nothing and forgotten nothing. The illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq was a story of geopolitical failure and domestic political disaster. To understand the foolhardy decision to launch the war, one must first understand the US grand strategy of global hegemony, which Washington has pursued since 1945. The "war on terror" provided political cover for the further pursuit of supremacy, despite threatening democratic government with lies, fraud and violence. George W Bush's rash actions did provoke some murmurs of concern…