When the U.S. went into Afghanistan in 2001 to allegedly root out the Taliban and alqaeda, several members of the Northern Alliance cheered them up.
Over 250,000 people died, mostly members of the Northern Alliance’s coalition. 20 years later, the U.S. left Afghanistan unprepared, leaving the members of the Northern Alliance currently at the mercy of the same Taliban, suffering the consequences of their cheerfulness 20 years earlier.
The U.S., using Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), invaded Iraq in 2003 to remove Saddam Hussein from power and seize a phantom weapons of mass destruction. Many Iraqis cheered at them. Celebrated and destroyed all monuments associated with Saddam Hussein.
Years later, the U.S. became the weapons of mass destruction themselves. Over 1,000,000 people died, and the country has been destroyed to this day. Most of those cheerful people became stateless and homeless.
But the U.S. gained all the oil from the Iraqi lucrative oil wells.
In 2010, the U.S. led NATO to invade Libya to remove Gaddafi from power and restore democracy. Many Libyans, especially from Benghazi and Tripoli, cheered at the flying warplanes over their rooftops.
Quite alright, Gaddafi was killed in the process by the same Libyan, but the Libyans succeeded in destroying Libya. Now, they don’t have a country, they don’t have a government, and there are no Libyans. They became stateless. The U.S. did to Libya what it claimed, falsely, that Gaddafi was doing to Libya.
But the U.S. gained all the oil reserves in Libya, including their strategic massive reserves of Gold worth over 30,000 tons.
In 2011, the U.S. invaded Syria to remove Bashar al-Assad. It was a moment of happiness for the Syrians because they thought the U.S. would simply eliminate Assad and give them the Eldorado country they dreamt about.
A few years down the line, more than 600,000 people died, the entire Damascus, Aleppo were destroyed, but the Syrians gained ISIS, and Today, the same ISIS butcher is the Syrian “democratic” President.
However, the U.S. gained all the strategic energy reserves of Syria, including their very important Mediterranean Sea ports.
Now, if history is to teach us some lessons, we should know that having the U.S. military on our land is the greatest destruction machine that can ever be, and it’ll destroy more of the current cheerleaders supporting any invasion of our country.
I believe history, repeated several times over, is the most accurate teacher anyone can have.
I do accept the fact that the U.S. can push hard to unravel all the sponsors of terrorism in Nigeria, pinpoint them, sanction them, seize their properties and deal with them.
However, any attempt at direct military intervention in Nigeria should be rejected in totality by all well-meaning patriotic Nigerians.
