Quote:If you want to go full on isolationist, does that include leaving the middle east and removing all influence thereof?

Quote:Right, because Western busenesses currently operating in the Middle East and who rely on American political power are really going to accept that.

Quote:If you want to go full on isolationist, does that include leaving the middle east and removing all influence thereof?

  

Quote:End all foreign support for middle eastern nations, yes. Businesses can still do as they please, but the US should no longer play protectorate with the middle east.

The problem is....the Salafists want a complete Islamic state. They want the literal lifestyle of Mohammed. They want to take over Saudi Arabia, although the Wahabbists don't totally agree, they are similar. But it's the oil belt. It's also a strategic land area for multiple reasons. The Russians didn't invade due to terrorism, or to push their communist agenda...it was strategic.

It is very complex. I too, think, get the piss outta there and let them have at it. Hopefully, the moderate and so called allies can beat them.

We don't create allies or sympathies when there's collateral damage, a fancy word to say innocents were harmed.

So? Get rid of them once and for all? Boots on the ground? Where? Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq,Iran, Somalia..Etc..

IF they get their caliphate, will they be content? No. They'll have access to oil..therefor money and eventually a possible...probable nuke.

Killing Bin Laden slowed down his organization, but like a snake with its head cut off it still wiggles...or more like a worm that grows another appendage. But it's a start. Focus on leadership. And sadly, monitor places like mosques and the mullahs, imans,etc...and yes..here as well.

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