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Old 04-07-2017, 01:26 PM   #3768 (permalink)
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While I would be the first to agree with this as well, we have ****ed that region so hard for so long, the only way it will stabilize is if we pull out of the region COMPLETELY (not going to happen) or we fix it ourselves (only this time instead of saying we are spreading democracy while grabbin that oil and installing a despotic ruler that lets us do what we want, we actually try to prop up their governments with a legitimate democracy).
And what are the chances for either of those? I'll just be glad if we can keep our interventionism to a relative minimum (e.g. no invasions, and if we're going to bomb someone then please don't let it be just us led by a cowboy president). Our foreign policy is too unfocused and short-term oriented to hope for anything better atm, so saying "we need to do something" is tantamount to utopianism in the current climate.
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