You can't win in the Middle East, the guy who wrote the funny 'good' 'bad' analysis is right, there are no 'good' guys, today's good guys are bad guys tomorrow. The sad thing is there are millions of moderate Arabs in the ME but voices of reason stand no chance of being listened to, the lunatics run the Arab asylum. No doubt our intrusions into their business has exacerbated things but in no way are we the cause of their dysfunction.
So we should step away, let the Russians take their turn wasting billions and Russian lives.
Nobody will explain to me why we have to be there, they need us as buyers of their oil more than we need them and we are much less dependent on foreign oil now than ever before and will only become less and less dependent in the future. Other than oil there's nothing in the ME other than some shitty fruit and historical and religious sites for tourists.
When Al-Qaeda thinks you're too crazy and extreme you know you're dealing with evil incarnate in ISIS.
It would be nice if we could send them all the principals office, the UN as a stand in for that, have everybody air their grievances, a thousand years old as some of them are, and come up with a plan that everybody could and would live by.
Just like Al-Qaeda begetting ISIS, ISIS will have offspring - we cannot win. So don't play the game.
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