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No, that may be how it looks, but the reality is much more complicated. The missile strike on the US base was was for a two-fold reason. The first was to remind the US that Iran may only be a regional power, but it is a regional power with a lot of ballistic missiles and they can bomb the shit...

I'm was speaking on Iraq. I've already mentioned how he interfered with Libya and essentially brought down the entire functioning state. As for Syria, that was mostly a Russian play. Obama just played the fool.

More importantly, there is ample reason to let it all burn. The EU is now a competitor state that has in the past, made a run on our monetary power in the alliance via the Euro vs the Dollar. Letting the EU fall in waves of Middle Eastern refugees, power crises, a demographic crises, and an...

Yes? I'm not arguing that we did a splendid job in handling the region. Bush's invasion of Iraq was poorly planned, did not well consider the balance of power for the whole region, and his occupation of the country was downright abysmal for American interests, because he wanted to pursue the...

Precisely. Globalism was really about containing the Russians. ~30 years after the fall of the Soviets, we've begun to dismantle our former alliances. Hell, when Obama ran, he ran on bringing home the troops and getting out in the Middle East waaay back in 2008. The electoral process for this...

Not exactly. Small terrorist groups exist both internationally and domestically. In that regard, Islamic terrorists aren't really all that special. What is special about them is that they are supported by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, Syria, Russia, Pakistan, and the United States depending on...

No, we follow our own foreign policy. Now, that foreign policy does work fairly well with Israeli foreign policy and it's true that the Israelis are very good at manipulating our foreign policy to serve them, impart because each time our politicians cave to it, the voting public barely notices...

They are not stupid, that is very much true. That does not mean that they aren't out of touch with the evolving reality of the situation. And the situation is changing very fast. Iran spent the past two years trying to play by the old rules the US worked on for almost a century. And now that...

We are. Make no mistake about that. The Kurds have always been ready to aid the United States in fighting against the multiple regimes in the Middle East. Far more so than most of our so called allies. The tragedy of the situation is that the Kurds themselves are not a fully united people...

What Mike Pompeo wants is rather irrelevant here. Bolton wanted it much more and we saw how quickly he got shit canned. This is the Trump administration and he runs it with an iron fist. I see Iran has not learned its lesson. I'm not all that surprised given how badly they miscalculated by...

Well, it was an assassination of a military leader, not a political one. So it's not an assault upon their thought leaders so much as the people who are most capable of carrying it out. And as for Iraq, leaving Iraq will lead to global instability. Trump is also trying to leave Iraq, stupid...