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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Wed Nov 12 21:37:55 2014, in response to Re: Best commentary On US Midterm Elections, From A Canadian!, posted by Dave on Wed Nov 12 17:10:57 2014. there was little to show for all the lives lost and billions spentThat place was going to suck unless we ran it like a colony and kept it forever. It's easy to overwhelm a crappy army starved for equipment, but it's another when you're stuck with a corrupt civilian administration that had revanchist tendencies. In Syria, Assad was caught red-handed gassing his own people, an act that Obama had specifically warned would trigger American punishment. To be honest, letting him gas his people may still be better than the alternative of invading another Arab cesspool, and ending up with another Islamist state. Either we break up Syria and Iraq, or they stay unified and weak regimes with an illiberal democracy, or they become brutal Islamist hellholes. The Egypt government ignores our complaints about human rights violations Of course they're going to ignore us. We don't care enough to actually force them to do something, and quite frankly, the stability of the current regime is far more amenable when compared to what could have happened under the Muslim Brotherhood. Rogue states will behave more roguishly if they doubt America’s will to stop them. The problem with rogue states is that the cost of dealing with them has increased considerably, and nobody is really willing to risk starting a real war against them. Dealing with North Korea means watching South Korea burn and dealing with the Chinese who prefer a buffer state. Dealing with Ukraine means dealing with Russia, and that would be World War III. Dealing with Iran means a far more full fledged war and occupation compared to what took place in Iraq in 2003, and I question if the American population would be willing to endure the costs of such an engagement. Syria is probably easier, but for all intents and purposes, do we really want to back the Sunnis when their biggest representation is a bunch of jihadis? The U.S. is not the leading global trading partner; China surpassed us in 2012. There are 124 countries that consider China their largest trading partner while only 76 have that relationship with the U.S. They're all buying the same junk that we buy from the Chinese, and the Chinese are buying up their minerals and other natural resources in order to ensure a steady supply for production of consumer goods. In turn, the Chinese are slowly turning out capital goods with excellent financing terms to compete against equivalents from the Occident. |
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