(August 12, 2017 at 9:26 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I'm working very hard to think of one square meter of ground in the Middle East worth one pint of blood from a GI. Maybe someone can help me out?
I'd much rather let the Sunnis and Shi'ites kill each other rather than insert Americans into the firing line. I'm willing to pay higher prices at the gas pumps for it, too. Better Muslims fighting each other, and perhaps they'll eventually learn the lesson that fighting over godly conceptions -- or Earthly successions -- is futile ... inshallah.
And maybe, just maybe, if we didn't fuck around in the middle of their 6th century battles we wouldn't be facing threats from them here.
Why the fuck can't our politicians figure out what most sixteen-year-old boys have figured out. Pulling out is a better plan than none at all.
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