Trump's Muslim immigration ban includes green card holders

[Pat Mustard]

I'm not putting any opinions forward here because I admit I know little about American politics.  So I am genuinely asking this as a question not a rhetorical question.

But isn't this what America has always done?

Hasn't every single president or wannabe president (Hilary Clinton) either spoke about or directly ordered the bombing or military intervention against places like Libya, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Iran and so on.  While at the same time ignoring Turkey the Saudis and Egypt.

Obviously there's other countries with higher populations of Muslims too, Pakistan, Indonesia.

Yeah you are right. There is a history of them going after the little countries or easy targets to "spread democracy" while ignoring the more powerful states. I think they just know where their interests lie, financially speaking.

I was a child at the time so I'm not entirely sure what the exact full story behind Bush declaring war on Iraq, but that seemed like a completely random "just because" response to 9/11 too.

Three reasons, Shrub wanted to get revenge for Papa Shrub as he thought Iraq I (VI if you're British) cost Papa the election, the PNAC wanted to take control of Iraqi oil to flood the market and destroy OPEC, and the State Dept and Rice wanted to take control of Iraqi oil to stop it from flooding onto the market and destroying OPEC. Darth Cheney wanted to do all three.

Given such clear and complimentary goals it's surprising that Iraq became such a clusterfuck.