The problem IMHO is there is no clear solution.
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Pull out or don’t get invovled, accused of not caring. Also, gives terrorist more ability to do what they want.
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Get directly invovled and get accused of imperialism. I wish that if the US was being accused of that we would at least act like it, and literally take over and seize control, put in an American as the leader, and seize all the assets and ship them back home. Maybe I could get a nice rug out of the deal. Or heroin.
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Half ass it and waste a lot of time and lives and not make any thing better.
Like I said, a lot of the issues can be traced to the British and other people carving things up and ignoring old borders and cultures. All of that was definitely bad. Unfortunately, the most stable regions are also dictatorships and monarchies. Unfortunately we still need to buy some of their resources, thus we are going to have to have relations with those leaders. We naively thought taking down some dictators and oppressive authoritarian regimes would awaken the cradle of civilization into a new democratic era.
The reality is, even if we poofed the US out of the area, there would still be wars and conflicts. Even with out ISIS there is Syria and the Saudis vs Yemen, plus the Kurds wanting independence, plus even more issues across the Middle East and Africa. Certainly one can point out America’s and other outsiders actions as to WHY we are where were are - but what is the solution?
As a side note, our eventual back stabbing of Saddam and Qaddafi and others are exactly why North Korea is making sure that won’t happen to them.
