Wait, which is it? You keep saying I’m old but now you saying I’m not that old?   

Depends on context and what serves my agenda.

Dammit! Maybe I am a RINO. And here I thought my political leaning was NOTA (Brewter’s Millions). 

No doubt about that.  The Sunnis and Shiites will never get along and would continue their religious wars against one another with probable pot shots at Israel during their brief cease fires.

At least young American men and women will not be needlessly lost with much needed American dollars finally diverted to domestic needs.

On one hand I’ve thought many times that the US sticks it’s nose where it doesn’t belong. That said, I believe an isolationist stance is naive and sort of Pollyanna view of the world. JMO

We will never solve the world’s problems discussing it here. This issue is way too complicated to the extent that taking simplistic sides, one side or the other will also not solve this issue. I think the solution lies somewhere in the middle. Have we stuck our noses too far into the Middle East affairs. In some respects, yes I believe so. If we had left well enough alone, I believe that Israel would have lost the war in 1973 and would not exist today. There is so much hatred towards the US for helping Israel that we pretty much cemented that hate forever for helping Israel win that war. The Arabs hated Israel long before that. And the US interference in other country’s affairs (with few exceptions) were still not too egregious up to that point.

We will never solve the world’s problems discussing it here. This issue is way too complicated to the extent that taking simplistic sides, one side or the other will also not solve this issue. I think the solution lies somewhere in the middle. Have we stuck our noses too far into the Middle East affairs. In some respects, yes I believe so. If we had left well enough alone, I believe that Israel would have lost the war in 1973 and would not exist today. There is so much hatred towards the US for helping Israel that we pretty much cemented that hate forever for helping Israel win that war. The Arabs hated Israel long before that. And the US interference in other country’s affairs (with few exceptions) were still not too egregious up to that point.

This so wrong, that any Iranian reading this would die laughing.

Any proof?  Or just a personal opinion wrapped in a sarcastic and dismissive insult?

If America truly supported democratic government above its own selfish strategic interests in the Middle East, it would have not overthrew the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh back in 1953.

Because the same people in charge of the US government today are the same ones in charge and making all those policy decisions in 1953?  Therefore, nothing ever changes, because "USA is imperialistic?"


Moreover, both Iran and Syria for that matter today are not totally totalitarian states.  They both hold elections for the Presidency and parliament of their respective countries.

A state does not need to be totalitarian to be non-democratic, though it helps.   

A theocratic regime that engages in global terrorism through proxy militias and executes its dissidents, yet holds elections for the "president" as a bureaucratic figurehead is not democratic.

The USSR held elections for their President.  The Cubans held elections for their President.  Elections do not a democracy make.

Very Prophetic.   

BTW, I don't mind if you bold your responses because my eyes are bad.