The next step, where we stop supporting Israel militarily, is a broken alliance. Dang straight we should be doing everything we can to avoid that. It would be a disaster both home and abroad.
You saw what Mossad is capable of. The CIA will lose much of its presence in the region without them. And the Middle East is way way too important and hot region to ignore
The mideast is home to more than half of the world's oil reserves and the Suez canal. These two things alone make what happens in the region enormously consequential.
And before we get off on a tangent about oil, full global decarbonization won't change the fact that the region sits at the meeting point of three continents.
Door locks could have prevented 9/11, to say nothing of the institutional failures. Good intelligence is still only as good as the people evaluating it
A quarter century ago is not so long ago for these sorts of things. Many of us remember it vividly. Some of us lived in NYC or Pennsylvania or the DC area at the time. The consequences of that year have lasted for a generation and are not done with us yet – remind me again when we withdrew from Iraq or closed Guantanamo Bay?
In a similar manner, I as a child grew up under the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis, though it happened ten, twenty, or more years prior.
A quarter century ago is not so long ago for these sorts of things.
When we spend our time in a niche subreddit that has more teenagers than everyone over 35, the sense that 25 years ago is ancient history is hard to beat down unfortunately.
Yea and a lot of us don't remember it, didn't live in NYC, Pennsylvania or DC at the time, and think something that happened 23 years ago shouldn't have a bearing on our foreign policy when there are far far more important theaters to worry about that don't involve writing blank checks to a sectarian death struggle where both sides would genocide the other if they could.
Europe and Asia have actual consequences. We don't even need the Middle East for oil anymore. Leave the region to its own devices.
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u/SharkSymphony Voltaire Oct 08 '24
The next step, where we stop supporting Israel militarily, is a broken alliance. Dang straight we should be doing everything we can to avoid that. It would be a disaster both home and abroad.