08-02-2016, 01:34 PM
(07-28-2016, 04:17 PM)Anthony Wrote: But you are not a chickenhawk if you merely advocate being as sullen and as churlish as possible toward the Muslim world, short of war - as in cutting off all foreign aid to any country that refuses to recognize the Jewish people's right to exist (what did Jews ever to do to, for example, Gambians or Indonesians?); and the next time there is an earthquake, tsunami etc. in a Muslim country, T.S. - and that doesn't stand for tennis shoes!
Oh, if only the world was that simple.
An exchange of nukes between Israeli and Iran, or Iran and Saudi Arabia, or any combination of those along with Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan, India, China, Russia would change everything for everyone on the planet - and not in a good way but in a very very very bad way. And short of nukes, the flow of refugees to Europe and even here under Trump's biggest wet dream, from our leaving to let the chips fall where they may would make the current refugee/terrorist situation look about as bad as your in-laws deciding to stay an extra day.
I support Obama's subliminal message to both Israeli, the Saudis and basically the entire Middle East that 'we are not that into you any more' - BUT, its is childish to think we can just completely walk away from a 1000 year old mess just because we'd like to. It's no longer just about oil, if it ever was to begin with (see Crusades).
