Ukraine: U.S., European Union in no position to resist

Putin incursion into Ukraine not surprising

By Andrew P. Napolitano

When the Ukraine government needed cash, and Russia offered it a better deal than the European Union, our imperial diplomats and lawless intelligence gurus were embarrassed. The United States fomented another revolution in the streets of Kiev.

What happens when the U.S. government participates in toppling foreign governments in the name of spreading democracy? That behavior usually results in unintended consequences and often produces disasters.

With the invasion of Iraq in 2003, initially to search for weapons of mass destruction that we now realize the Bush administration knew did not exist there, and eventually for regime change, the United States succeeded in changing profoundly the Iraqi government.

In the process, though, we lost 4,500 American troops, suffered 45,000 substantial injuries, borrowed and spent and have not paid back more than $2 trillion, caused the deaths of 650,000 Iraqis, displaced 2.5 million Iraqis, and unleashed into Iraq our public enemy, al Qaeda.

Al Qaeda was not in Iraq before we invaded. Today, it controls one-third of that now-unstable country.

In 2010, President Obama decided he no longer liked America’s favorite Middle Eastern dictator, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, even though he and his four immediate predecessors gave the Mubarak government about $2 billion annually. Our agents fomented revolution in the streets while Mr. Obama suggested openly that it was time for Mr. Mubarak to leave office.

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