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True..but again, that's got nothing to do with us.
We're free to NOT meddle in a troubled Middle East.
Just buy the oil. I don't care who sells it to me.
Things like this have everything to do with us. In 1914 Americans thought that war was just a European affair and of no consequense to us. Within four years over two million young American males were on the front lines and one in 7 would never come home and an almost equal number were injured by gun fire scrapnel and poison gas attacks. Americans like you need to understand that conflagrations spread and before you know it the fires are singing us if not burning our national home down. 2014 is going to be a bad fire season out west.
Things like this have everything to do with us. In 1914 Americans thought that war was just a European affair and of no consequense to us. Within four years over two million young American males were on the front lines and one in 7 would never come home and an almost equal number were injured by gun fire scrapnel and poison gas attacks. Americans like you need to understand that conflagrations spread and before you know it the fires are singing us if not burning our national home down. 2014 is going to be a bad fire season out west.
Nonsense.
Outside of a ship sinking, the United States had no reason to enter WW1. None whatsoever.
That has nothing to do with the Middle East. Why can't you folks just leave the Arab World alone? Why is it so far fetched to stop meddling in their internal affairs? They don't like you....you're not gonna make them like you.
But no, you've just GOTTA be the typical know it all Americans and pretend to know what's best for other nations when your own country is a mess.
It has dawned on me that I really don't care about the Middle East. I don't care about Israel. I don't care about the Palestinians. I don't care if they blow themselves up to smithereens. In fact I wish they would, then the rest of the world could finally catch a break from the endless, tedious, Israel/Islam conundrum. The first paragraph explains perfectly why "gentiles" shouldn't waste so much energy on the Middle East. They are a lost cause unto themselves-
In personal terms, I'm considered a gentile to one side and a kafir to the other. In other words, both sides consider me to be the "other." Yet if I dare mention it, one side will call me an anti-Semite and the other will dub me an Islamophobe. Both terms are unabashedly dishonest. One term presumes that Semites could never possibly do anything that might lead to anti-Semitism, while the other assumes that Muslims are never scary enough to induce Islamophobia. (Let's leave the discussion of what exactly constitutes a "Semite" for another day.)
Still, Americans are expected to care about the Middle East for reasons that are both pragmatic and ideological.
Every time I watch world news, the conflicts in the Middle East are the subject. I hate having to hear about it because I really don't give a **** about their ass-backwards society that's stuck in the middle ages. If they can't figure out how to be a civil, rational society, I can't really bring myself to care how ****ty it makes their citizens' lives. I also don't think it's our job (more advanced nations) (I'm from Canada) to try and fix any of it. We can't help them anyways because the root of the problem is in their religious extremism and inability to separate their politics from that situation.
Americans — left, right, Democrats, and Republicans — are all sick of thankless nation-building in the Middle East. Yet democratization was not our first choice, but rather a last resort after other methods failed.
I think Middle Eastern should resolve their conflicts themselves. They need to figure out a way themselves. I don't know how they would do it, but it is their businesses.
That has nothing to do with the Middle East. Why can't you folks just leave the Arab World alone? Why is it so far fetched to stop meddling in their internal affairs? They don't like you....you're not gonna make them like you.
But no, you've just GOTTA be the typical know it all Americans and pretend to know what's best for other nations when your own country is a mess.
The arrogance is astounding.
Yes, the arrogance is astounding. Especially when the President thinks he can sit down and "make friends" with these people, negotiate, be rational and reasonable. Amazing.
Yes, the arrogance is astounding. Especially when the President thinks he can sit down and "make friends" with these people, negotiate, be rational and reasonable. Amazing.
Name the last president that DIDN'T think he could sit down with those people and make friends?
Go ahead...i'm waiting.
If you can't make friends with them, then leave them alone. Is that so hard?
Please see "mankind" and 99% of Human existence and 2/3rds of the world today. What I see happening in Gaza is a cakewalk to what our ancestors put up with on a daily basis. Life sucks. War is natural. Peace is abnormal.
Truth to be told The only reason there is coverage on middle east is the propped up Israel nation (our ally) and strategic interest to Oil.
Guess what - their oil is going away as a lever to importance. With that, Israel can go f' itself.
If we go into every place were people are being mistreated. . .we will spend money and not get a gain.
I think the policy is to promote stability, freedom, etc through economics and trade. Guns, missiles, and Air craft carriers are not ambassador's of peace.
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I don't agree.
I DO care about the middle east.
There's roughly 130 million who populate the region, 99.9% of whom live in constant fear, oppression, repression, and coercion their entire lives. Each and every last one of them is a tragedy.
One cannot be immune to the human suffering caused by their governments, politics, and religion. If you are, you're just immune to concern for humanity as a whole.
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