Thank whatever anyone holds sacred, that the thread went back to more conversational, democratic, and less insulting posts from "experts" that think that they know the "absolute truth".
Middle East, with or without Indo-Iranian and Turko-Mongol extensions is as (maybe more) complicated and diverse issue than European Union; and oversimplifying one-sided views do not really help in understanding the situation.
Dunno though how so many people still believe it's a good idea to:
1) let countries building up nuclear arsenals (Iran and Israel), while a few years ago were annihilating countries that didn't, yet under that excuse (Iraq).
2) fueling the hatred among people that are bound to react in a very negative manner, instead of helping them.
3) ditching allies (Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Egypt) based on short-term interests, like military catering and warhead coating, launching whole wars that end up killing their own mercenaries along with many more local civilians.
They could have tried reading a wider array of historical book, instead of memorizing the "analysis" of their (
hired from someone) prof, that like Taliban have very specific interests to serve
Dunno, isn't the objective of US, Putin and CCP to lead humanity into some kind of
utopia (from their perspective)... but instead of doing that, they "chicken out" when things get hard to deal with and let messianic leaders butcher native and foreign population?!?!?
I can understand why certain "schools of thought" try really hard to ignore what is going on around the world, in order to serve their sponsors; but long term even they should have realized (however much religiously abiding to their "fantasies"), that won't benefit even their sponsors, let alone themselves and their peers... e.g. the fall of the shah in Iran, the Taliban they trained and armed in Afghanistan, the dictator they supported in Iraq, and so on... all of them turned against them, and their childish understanding of the extended region's situation.
That's even more short-sighted than Cameron's and Merkel's understanding of European solidarity
