When you consider the middle east and our involvement in it, it boils down to two issues, Oil and Israel.
Now for various reasons we have been identified as enemies by many natives in the region resulting in various attacks on us as "The Great Satan".
The current situation has a rather long and complex history, with escalations at each stage involving us more and more in countries which in all honesty have no great impact on America, except of course for the fact that we have troops there.
What is probably the next stage is increasing hostilities, possibly war, with Iran which I'm sure we can "defeat" but which I doubt we can subjugate.
We had at one time installed a friendly ruler there, the Shah, and we know how that worked out.
The question now is how many Americans and Iranians are going to die now?
It is almost certain that in ten years time we can use the following sentence,
"After xxx casualties and $xxx dollars we have no resolution in sight and must maintain our presence in the area."
So dead Americans and wasted billions, if not trillions.
Refugees and ruined lives for many Iranians.
And the benefit is?
Are the lives of our young people really that unimportant?
What about the potential terrorist victims here and abroad?
And no real reason why.
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