And I just had a brainstorm after reading this and it goes back to my concept of enlightened self interest. Perhaps, the best thing for US interests is to foster as much conflict in the region as we can. The more it destabilizes, the more time they'll spend killing each other instead of us.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Raoul Duke
The last time I cared to check I think the civilian death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan was at around 132,000. So this whole idea of 'We can kill your civilians but you can't' kind of rings fairly flat with me.
And CD we're much more efficient at killing them than they are at killing one another.
BKB
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