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"I just want America to be secure..."

So do I, I'd rather we spend money rather than lives doing so.

Don't gloss over how important peace between the PA and Israel is. That conflict is, and has been for decades, used by the ruling tyrants in the Middle East to keep the masses attention focused elsewhere. Israel has been the whipping boy and fall guy for the region.

The PA will never be able to successfully address the terrorists within their midst without ending support from the other countries around them, Syria in particular. Lebanon has been used by Syria as a staging ground for terrorist training and attacks on Israel. Once Lebanon is free, Syria will be under a microscope, their covert support of terrorist groups will no longer be under the covers when attacks are launched from Syria itself (to a much greater degree than they are today).

You will never have real stability in that region until a semblance of peace is fostered between Israel and the PA. You will never have true security in this country unless stability is found in that region. Thus, our security is very much dependent upon how stable that region is. The relations between Israel and the PA is just a reflection or barometer of that security...IMHO

That conflict is, and has been for decades, used by the ruling tyrants in the Middle East to keep the masses attention focused elsewhere. Israel has been the whipping boy and fall guy for the region.

That's a good point, but we continue to prop up BOTH sides of the conflict for reasons I don't understand. If peace is the ultimate goal, propping up either side would seem to me a mistake. Better to throw the two of them in the same hole and make them work together to get out, instead of giving them both a pile of cash and telling them to settle between themselves who gets the dough. Our foreign policy as regards the PA/Israeli conflict has no stick, and you can take that in either of two ways.

You will never have true security in this country unless stability is found in that region. Thus, our security is very much dependent upon how stable that region is. The relations between Israel and the PA is just a reflection or barometer of that security...IMHO

Actually, here we part ways. I don't think our security is dependent at all on how stable that region is. I think our security is dependent upon how strong our defense is, and how self-sufficient we are as a country. The more intertwined and reliant our country is on these others, the less likely we are to EVER get real national security. We will instead have the security of a slave, as we do now, confident that we'll get our next barrel of crude if only we keep the right distance from the master.