“EVER SINCE BRITAIN AND FRANCE overthrew Ottoman rule in World War I to create the modern Middle East, Western nations have relied on unquestioned military superiority to secure their position in the region. Between the world wars, European imperialists ruthlessly employed firepower to crush nationalist uprisings. After World War II, as the United States supplanted Europe, American military power underwrote the oil-for-protection bargain forged with Saudi Arabia and eventually made Washington the ultimate guarantor of regional stability. When Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had the temerity to challenge American primacy in 1990, the outcome served only to affirm US military preeminence.Meanwhile, Israel was subjecting its Arab neighbors to recurring military humiliations. . . .”
No Win By Andrew J. Bacevich, Boston Globe
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I am tired of these foolish foreign misadventures--which is why I am not supporting the Senator from New York or either of the worthless Senators from Arkansas.
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