re: #201 imp_62

Disagree. It’s a small world, and the US has been involved in the region for decades. Simply deciding to ignore it wouldn’t make it go away, or become irrelevant.

We had a warning shot fired across our bows in 1973. We chose to ignore it.
In the 80’s we had Iraq and Iran fighting a war and selling oil as fast as they could pump it at rock-bottom prices, so we lost another decade.

It is not a matter of “ignoring” it, it is a matter of adopting an active policy to end our economic and political involvement in an unstable and backward part of the world.