Winners and Losers... The First Geopolitical Law in the Middle East

Thinkers, politicians, and diplomats have spilled much ink to interpret the failure of the United States of America in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Middle East in general. The conundrum to explain is its field victory in the battles and frontlines, its victory over its enemies of leaders and soldiers, followed by the defeat of its geostrategic projects despite trillions of dollars spent in the Middle East and Central Asia since 1990, which caused the death of thousands of its soldiers in its quest to realize its strategic goal and geopolitical purposes. The United States sent Marines to Somalia in 1993 to implement Security Council Resolution 790, which resulted in the toppling of General Mohamad Farrah Aidid’s fighters, two Delta Force helicopters, and the killing of twenty American soldiers from the elite forces, whose bodies were mutilated and dragged through the streets of Mogadishu in front of the media, which caused US President, Bill Clinton at the time, to issue an order to withdraw from Somalia.