Actually, what the hell's going on isn't so difficult to figure out. [More]
It's just that having domestic enemies tar as us "haters" could make us pariahs.
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Monday, December 09, 2019
Some Things You Just Can't Talk About
It's just that having domestic enemies tar as us "haters" could make us pariahs.
[Via Geordan]
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Let us speak plainly about the Middle East and idiots, among whom are many who think we're doing great things there.
Pigs will not simply fly... pigs will win dogfights against F-16s before anything in the Middle East (Israel excepted) resembles what any sane person would describe as "a functioning 21st-century nation".
Anyone who tells you that we will enlighten The Islamic World and bring them current is an idiot.
If they don't themselves believe what they're telling you, they think you're the idiot.
If you believe them, you are.
Islam as an ideology is most comfortable in a medieval-or-earlier culture and technology. Left to their own devices, any 'modern' Islamic state would pretty quickly devolve to exactly that: feudalism or something akin to the Dark Ages. Saudi Arabia can get rich on oil only because of two things:
1. some technologically modern nation taught them how to drill for oil
2. several oil-dependent modern nations buy their oil
Saudi Arabia is a military power only because they can spend oil money buying equipment they simply could not develop on their own. If everyone stops selling Middle Eastern countries things they can kill with, peace (in a manner of speaking) will settle upon the land.
There is absolutely no reason for the U.S. to have a troop presence there, and many, many reasons for us to withdraw and never return.
Absent a thoroughgoing welfare state, there would be no appreciable Muslim population in any Western country.
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