The Middle Eastern question

[Kinser79]

(05-11-2016, 02:16 AM)Galen Wrote:

(05-11-2016, 01:23 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: Personally myself I think a great deal could be done to starve Muslim Terrorism by starving the oil exporting countries economies except perhaps for Iran, Russia and Venezuela.  Iran hates ISIS as much or more than we do.  Of course this means we might have to let them have South Western Iraq...but those people are ethnic Persians anyway so why not.

The Iranians may hate the US but its not as if they don't have a good reason but they are in many ways saner that just about anyone else in the region.  Its about like dealing with Putin, you may not like him but he is a known quantity and disinclined to do anything stupid.

The US after nearly fifteen years of war is really not in a position to start another.

You don't have to convince me...it is the liberals and other neo-cons that need to be convinced. We've tried a saeculum of doing the exact opposite of what George Washington told us to do and what do we have for it? A declining economy, crumbling infrastructure, an empty treasury and being nearly universally hated.

Frankly I'm sick of it, and I've been an isolationist since the 1990s. The only reason anyone even cares about that wasteland, other than the people there, is because there is oil under the sand. We get off the oil as much as possible (reserving most of its uses for plastics and other better uses) and then buy what oil we need from people who aren't completely insane.

As for Iran's problems with the US, I actually trace that back to the US. The CIA backed a coup against Mosaddegh, and placed the Shah back in power, and then Shah in turn purged whatever moderates and democrats there were leaving only folks like Kohmeini around to pick up the pieces after the Shah was deposed a second time. In short messing around in other country's affairs backfired, and have always backfired and now we have to deal with the blow back.