(July 15, 2016 at 9:48 am)abaris Wrote: As long as the region itself is highly unstable, it will continue. I grew up with the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and it won't be solved in my lifetime. Now, the lid is off from even more boiling kettles. Partly because of Bushite idiocy, partly because there's still finger pointing at Assad, instead of understanding that it's in our own best interest to protect him instead of groups with unknown goals. Lybia should have told us as much.
Yeah, bad man, I know. But at least largely secular bad man with a vested interest in stability.
I completely agree. We're making a huge mistake by trying to oust him and it's also pissing off Russia. And it's unlikely that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be solved in my lifetime either.
