We're starting to figure it out

[hollodero]

(01-10-2020, 08:48 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Sure. We did it after 911. Why not include countries in the ME

Because most people, and I'd suppose that goes for the US as well, would not like to go to war over a conflict between two middle eastern countries or entities.
Which would most probably happen. Someone would use some proxy war attack to call article 5, and then american lifes are lost in intervening on behalf of one despot over another despot, or on behalf of one islamic religion over another islamic religion, or on behalf of one fringe guerilla corps over some other half-official entity. I don't know, that idea sounds like a lot of war. Or the end of NATO.-