The Middle Eastern question

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(05-14-2016, 04:04 PM)Odin Wrote: Faith in the UN? HAHAHAHAHAHA, the UN is a joke, geopolitically, in anything where the interests of the permanent members of the Security Council are in conflict. I remember seeing news stories as a kid of blue-helmets standing by doing nothing while Rwandans and Bosnians were butchered.

Whatever...  Rwanda and the hellhole known as the Balkans have no strategic interest to the US. I see no reason to meddle in every sort of action other folks around the world are doing.

Odin Wrote:I may be left-wing, but I am also a geopolitical realist. US isolationism will create a power vacuum that will only lead to horrific wars as various powers try to fill the void. Have we all forgotten what happened when the US refused to accept hegemonic status after WW1? The result was another world war. Isolationism is a idealistic ideology for the geopolitically ignorant.

What is unsustainable will stop. I mean just look around.  The residents of Fint are getting toxified by lead, the US infrastructure is 3rd world, and the US must get off fossil fuels. Also, if we don't dismantle the MIC , we'll end up in the terminal stages of empire. Wealth disparity will keep climbing and most of us will end up as peasants. Reality bites if we keep on the current course , the dollar loses reserve status and we'll have to actually pay for imports instead of just printing money like we do now. I do not want to live in a country that has gone bankrupt like Venezuela which is now literally starving and descending into mob rule.

http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/edito...94787.html

Now, add frittering away money on non productive stuff like an outsized military, a dash of government corruption/ineptitude, and a pinch of globalization and you get this:

https://panampost.com/sabrina-martin/201...permarket/

Pigeons, the other white meat.