(05-30-2018, 09:08 PM)copycat Wrote:

(05-30-2018, 09:03 PM)TJBender Wrote: I still don't see how that's any more our problem than it would be Israel's problem is Canada and Mexico were ready to start a war with us. If anything, we've made the problem infinitely worse by giving Israel 80 nuclear weapons compared to the 0 possessed by the rest of the Middle East combined.

I get your point however if you were surrounded by enemies how would you react?  The whole issue with Israel is a mess but what is a reasonable solution?  I get the sense that a vast majority of the world's population has more compassion for a snell darter than a jew.

I think we should have left the Middle East alone and focused on diplomacy, not puppetry, to maintain a presence there. It's not about compassion. We destabilized an entire region by introducing 80 nuclear weapons to a tiny nation created by men who we would refer to today as terrorists. Without constant US support (and, you know, 80 nukes), that nation would not exist today. It's a breaking point for normalizing relations with the rest of the Middle East.

Given that Israel has the ability to turn everything from Cairo to Karachi into a parking lot, I think they'd do just fine if left to fend for themselves.

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