RE: Israel and Iran on brink of war
⁜→ "Picaro," et al,
BLUF: The US does not have the moral high ground, the political capital or the monetary strength to act as the "World Police" anymore.
Compared to who? Who is there we need to pretend has higher moral ground? The UN? Latvia? Our own interests are what matters, not what some partisan press release writer at the NYT might say about it. And, we've been threatened repeatedly and attacked.
It's the only solution that will work with them, they're nutjobs, and like all Islamists any compromises are seen as evidence of weakness, not diplomacy, no different than Nazi Germany's views were, The Soviet Union's, Putin's, Mao's, or Xi's views. The stone age is where they will be happiest, back to bandit nomads killing each other over sheep and water holes, which is where Libya, Iraq, and Syria are heading.
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While I'm sure that there are probably a significant number of people who agree
Yet historically that view has only led to bigger and worse conflagrations, just kicking the can down the line. Better to fight small wars, in the case of Iran maybe an hour longer than it took to destroy Iraq's offensive capabilities, due to size of Iran. Then we let them dig themselves out for a few years. Maybe by then they might see that 'Allah' doesn't really like them as much as they think. Or better yet, we suck every drop of oil they have out of the ground while we're there and then leave, and they can rot while they wait for the rest of Islam to save them.