Let Mideast people solve their region's problems

US President Barack Obama and Congress are discussing the prospects of more military involvement in fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. It seems the US administration is repeating a distinct pattern of its foreign policy. The American media demonize a country before American politicians talk about American responsibility to help the people of that country. The US demonized Saddam Hussein and invaded Iraq riding on the back of a series of lies. After several thousand casualties on its side, and close to 1 million casualties on the Iraqi side, the US managed to completely destabilize Iraq as a nation.

Before that, the US demonized the Taliban in Afghanistan and invaded that country. With a cost of a couple of trillion dollars and hundreds of thousands of casualties on both sides, Afghanistan today is in a mess.

After demonizing Moammar Gadhafi for years, the US, together with France and Britain, once the most powerful colonial powers, got a UN "permit" to bomb Libya. The bombings decimated Libya's infrastructure and toppled the Gadhafi government. Now Libya is politically and economically in ruins with a civil war raging on.