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What If Chaos Were Our Middle East Policy?
Frontpagemag.com ^ | August 31,2016 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 08/31/2016 3:25:38 AM PDT by Biggirl

Sum up our failed Middle East policy in a nine-letter word starting with an S. Stability. Stability is the heart and soul of nation-building. It’s the burden that responsible governments bear for the more irresponsible parts of the world. First you send experts to figure out what is destabilizing some hellhole whose prime exports are malaria, overpriced tourist knickknacks and beheadings. You teach the locals about democracy, tolerance and storing severed heads in Tupperware containers.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: caliphate; middleeast; policy
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To: Little Ray
Not our job, and not our problem

+1.

One caveat: If they MAKE it our problem by bringing their sh** over HERE, then, no limits.

21 posted on 08/31/2016 6:36:27 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Rise)
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To: Biggirl

In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those armed by the CIA

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3464546/posts


22 posted on 08/31/2016 6:58:26 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Jim Noble

BUMP!!! Then bump some more!


23 posted on 08/31/2016 7:59:50 AM PDT by redhead (NO GROUND TO THE DEVIL! Remember BENGHAZI! Use WEAPONIZED PRAYER. NOW.)
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To: Phlap

Chaos has been everyone’s MiddleEast policy for the last 2000 years


24 posted on 08/31/2016 9:47:15 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (I shot a woman in Punta Gorda, just to watch her die)
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