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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat has 60 years of our covert and overt intervention in the ME, resulted in?
A big fucking mess, that's what. Of course I'll stipulate that it's impossible to know what it would look like without intervention and our not intervening doesn't mean others wouldn't have, but let's just take the past 20 years since the first gulf war. The Middle East has become increasingly unstable. The trillions of dollars, the death and destruction haven't made for a safer world. It hasn't made for better lives in the region.
We can tell ourselves that we can't just stand by, but our history of intervention has been a huge humanitarian failure. It's benefited no one so much as the Saudis and the military industrial complex here.
We really don't learn from history.
Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)than any other collective force in modern human history. We are the enemy we so despise.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)The predictable result of that was that Assad was going to be backed into a corner and do some hideous shit.
cali
(114,904 posts)Could be Assad, could be rebel forces.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Syria is basically a very nasty civil war with outside agitators/combatants thrown in the mix. I can see absolutely nothing good long term coming from us bombing/shelling/putting boots on the ground.
Let the UN fully investigate Syria.
snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)the UN sending in forces during our civil war? From my understanding
we've aided the rebels. Aren't factions of them the very same types
we've been fighting against in the ME? This whole thing is nuts....
been going on for some time but now is the time to get involved...
well, we do need a diversion from the NSA stuff.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)into a gigantic, European clusterfuck and made it even worse.
And to repeat: All to profit politically connected corporations.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)michigandem58
(1,044 posts)Keeping the oil flowing and trying to contain or eliminate military or terrorist threats to this country or Israel.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)A Big Fucking Mess! Cascades of stupidity and arrogance culminating in the disaster we have today. And here we are winding up for the next installment.