02-20-2019, 05:07 PM
(02-20-2019, 01:22 AM)Benton Wrote: Urine?
To the point, no, not really. As I've said for decades, we should leave the me to the me. Their issues date back thousands of years, nothing we do is going to have a positive impact there.
I've advocated for more than a decade, take the money were spending "improving" the me and subsidizing oil, spend it on renewable energy and stay as far away as possible from that part of the world.
I would not mind helping if it would fix anything. But until they separate their religion from their government no amount of bombs, diplomacy, blockades, foreign aid, sanctions, troops, or anything else is going to bring peace to the middle east.