re: #298 wlewisiii

Well, no, in the middle east we’ve shown repeatedly under Dems & Repubs that we can’t counter it. If we could, Israel would be in a much better place. That said, we now have to deal with the UN.

We have to go there first. If, at the end of the day, we have a specific bad guy to point at (china, russia, someone else) so much the better.If not, we can at least say we followed the rules. We can not afford to pretend this is “Top Gun” and just send in the Hornets with missiles hot. .

There also isn’t much to shoot with a Hornet.

Honestly, the US has a rather awful track record with the Muslim world when it comes to intervening with their rulers. We were the ones who propped up Saddam and Bin Laden and the Sha. Under Carter and Reagan, it was thought that giving a credible rival to the PLO would help Israel, so a little “peaceful” organization that swore it was only about building schools and doing charity was given millions of dollars. That organization was Hamas.

That turned out great for us.

It is much better to let those places do their thing and then deal with whomever the people put up. However, it would also be good to get rid of the oil leverage so we could deal properly with whatever regime cropped up.