I would pay good money to see the reactions of the cuntservatives if we allied with Iran.
Let's face it, our policy shouldn't be about idealism and being the harbingers of freedom and democracy and blah blah blah in the M.E. We're powerful; we're not that powerful. The middle east has a lot to go through, culturally-speaking, before it's ready to handle a multi-party socio-democratic system. It's gonna get uglier there before it gets better. It goes against the grain for me to say this, but...let 'em kill each other. Either one side is gonna tire out and accept defeat or they both are gonna tire out and accept a ceasefire, and possibly end up learning to tolerate each other in the way that democrats and republicans tolerate each other rather than straight-up murdering one another. If other nations want to start coming together to do the work, then good for them. But frankly I'm tired of the world always staring at us pointedly every time a bunch of massacres start happening. It's always "Where's the American military," and then it's "The American military has no right being there!" A lot of NATO-members' foreign policies are hypocritical and two-faced as fuck. Everyone was pissing and moaning that we weren't diverting our forces to a third front in Libya, then they all get pissy when we send Spectres and Spookies in to open fire on groups firing on civilians.
The Shits and Dummies wanna butcher each other, fine, whatever, have fun guys, lie in the beds you made for yourselves. We spent years training Iraq's armed forces and apparently they were too stupid to know which end of the gun to point at the target, too stupid to overcome their bigotry towards one another, and too craven to understand any form of discipline. Their government has fallen apart almost instantly. As has been said before many times in this thread; you can't give computers to cavemen and expect them to do anything other than break them.
Let's face it, our policy shouldn't be about idealism and being the harbingers of freedom and democracy and blah blah blah in the M.E. We're powerful; we're not that powerful. The middle east has a lot to go through, culturally-speaking, before it's ready to handle a multi-party socio-democratic system. It's gonna get uglier there before it gets better. It goes against the grain for me to say this, but...let 'em kill each other. Either one side is gonna tire out and accept defeat or they both are gonna tire out and accept a ceasefire, and possibly end up learning to tolerate each other in the way that democrats and republicans tolerate each other rather than straight-up murdering one another. If other nations want to start coming together to do the work, then good for them. But frankly I'm tired of the world always staring at us pointedly every time a bunch of massacres start happening. It's always "Where's the American military," and then it's "The American military has no right being there!" A lot of NATO-members' foreign policies are hypocritical and two-faced as fuck. Everyone was pissing and moaning that we weren't diverting our forces to a third front in Libya, then they all get pissy when we send Spectres and Spookies in to open fire on groups firing on civilians.
The Shits and Dummies wanna butcher each other, fine, whatever, have fun guys, lie in the beds you made for yourselves. We spent years training Iraq's armed forces and apparently they were too stupid to know which end of the gun to point at the target, too stupid to overcome their bigotry towards one another, and too craven to understand any form of discipline. Their government has fallen apart almost instantly. As has been said before many times in this thread; you can't give computers to cavemen and expect them to do anything other than break them.
