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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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1 posted on 08/31/2016 3:25:39 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl
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

Not my circus.

Not my monkeys.

How much death and destruction they inflict on each other is no interest of mine, or of ours.

Touch the hair on an American's head, you die is a sufficient foreign policy to apply to the Islamic world.

2 posted on 08/31/2016 3:29:02 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Rise)
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To: Biggirl

The chaos comes from three contending parts.

Part 1. The cold war wonks. Generally spinless boot-lickers of the foreign enemy. Trained to submit rather than contend lest our enemy decide they don’t like us anymore.

Part 2. Domestic enemy. Those who love the foreign enemy, no matter how openly that foreign enemy declares every intention of putting all our domestic enemy to death at soonest opportunity.

Part 3. Those who want to put our foreign enemy under the dirt permanently due to sure and certain knowledge that there is no reforming, going along to get along, or learning to “live in peace” with the scumbags that are our foreign enemy.


3 posted on 08/31/2016 3:32:45 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Biggirl

If so, it would be EMBRACED and FUNDED by the
corrupt, complicit, alQaeda-arming, voter-hating,
remaining EXEMPT forever, slavery-supporting,
GOP.


4 posted on 08/31/2016 3:33:14 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Biggirl

Chaos isn’t our Middle East policy? Who knew?


5 posted on 08/31/2016 4:18:13 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: Biggirl

What do you mean....What if??


6 posted on 08/31/2016 4:24:50 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Jim Noble

Have you ever wondered just what the hell the Middle East produces? Outside of the oil states, which is obvious, what productive economic activity takes place? What do those people do for a living?


7 posted on 08/31/2016 4:29:00 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: wastoute
What do those people do for a living?

Goat breeders?

8 posted on 08/31/2016 4:41:35 AM PDT by Pipe Dog
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To: wastoute

“What do those people do for a living?”

None of my business. Couldn’t care less.


9 posted on 08/31/2016 4:43:06 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Rise)
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To: Pipe Dog

I suppose. It makes sense. A Middle Ages religion for a Middle Ages economy. Throw in cell phones and AK 47s and the result is predictable.


10 posted on 08/31/2016 4:43:30 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Biggirl

I remember the good old days, when Iran and Iraq were at war with each other forever.


11 posted on 08/31/2016 4:45:08 AM PDT by onona (Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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To: Jim Noble

the policy is “peace at any price”


12 posted on 08/31/2016 4:45:50 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... We Frack for Peace)
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To: Jim Noble

On one level I could care little myself. However the Klown is importing them as fast as he can and Hillary has promised to increase this tenfold so here they come.


13 posted on 08/31/2016 4:46:39 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: wastoute

I said, I don’t care what they do OVER THERE.

Once they’re HERE, that’s a different matter.


14 posted on 08/31/2016 4:54:33 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Rise)
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To: Biggirl

What If Chaos Were Our Middle East Policy?

I’d say we were right on target!


15 posted on 08/31/2016 4:57:22 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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To: Jim Noble

I was just curious. I can’t help but wonder. It occurs to me that, say Syria, for instance, has the Russian Navy base on the Med. Is THAT what the biggest driver in their economy is? Sort of like a detective, follow the money. If the Syrian economy, like the Cuban in the 60s is built on Russian subsidy, Israel and Turkey by US subsidy, etc. perhaps the best way to deal with the region is everybody just stop sending them money. In a generation let their populations fall to levels they can actually support on their own.


16 posted on 08/31/2016 5:02:19 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Biggirl

What do they mean, if. The truth of the matter is that it is our current policy and it is the U.N’s and it’s the EU’s policy. It is a one world government policy for all nations to lose their sovereignty and it has been public knowledge for at least a decade. The Arab Springs are all designed to break sovereignty...none of these places were ever intended to be better off after an Arab Spring...they were intended to be in turmoil. This is why Hillary supported TPP/TPA and created two of her own Arab Springs in Egypt and Libya...Obama’s in Syria and Iraq and attempted in Turkey and continuing in Afghanistan and full support for the EU immigration flood into all remaining semi-sovereighn nations of the EU. Obama is attempting in the USA to break sovereignty with his BLM Marxists and importation of anti-American anti-Christian so-called refugees and South American gangs. This is why the Clinton’s have their corrupt Clinton Foundation...a point of consensus on who will lead the broken nation into submission to the world power. The Bush’s did their part as we all can see. Ted Cruz and the establishment RINOs have done their part with TPP/TPA and the stepping-stone of the North American Union.


17 posted on 08/31/2016 5:18:13 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Biggirl

Insidious Non-Polarity / Newer World Order…

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2008-05-03/age-nonpolarity


18 posted on 08/31/2016 5:32:42 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Louis Foxwell

Greenfield ping.


19 posted on 08/31/2016 6:01:06 AM PDT by upchuck (2 Timothy 3:13: But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.)
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To: Jim Noble

Not our job, and not our problem. As long as it doesn’t interfere with commerce (i.e. the flow of oil at market prices) they should be allowed to kill each other all they want.
It is not worth a single American life or a single American dollar to rescue these people from each other.


20 posted on 08/31/2016 6:07:20 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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