The piece makes some good points, but the isolationist foreign policy is a recipe for disaster. We can’t disengage. It’s too late. We’re stuck to the tar baby. If we leave the Middle East, we leave a vacuum that will be filled by Wahabbist terrorists and Shi’a fanatics.
We’re going to end up having to bludgeon down a significant portion of the Islamic world, I’m afraid, before we can think about reducing our commitments in the Middle East. That, and find ways to wean ourselves from their oil.
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I agree, and that's where I diverge with Ron Paul.
“The piece makes some good points, but the isolationist foreign policy is a recipe for disaster. We can’t disengage. It’s too late. We’re stuck to the tar baby. If we leave the Middle East, we leave a vacuum that will be filled by Wahabbist terrorists and Shi’a fanatics.
We’re going to end up having to bludgeon down a significant portion of the Islamic world, I’m afraid, before we can think about reducing our commitments in the Middle East. That, and find ways to wean ourselves from their oil.”
Agreed. We can minimize our exposure in the ME but NOT until we are energy independant and at this rate it will take another 20 years at least. It will be the private sector that comes up with competiting products for big oil. It’s happening but it takes time, money, commitments and lobbyists. As for the immigration invasion, the American public must do something about this by voting in our voting our people who care about America first as a collective instead of special interest groups/voting blocs. These idiots in Washington are going to pass this awful bill but the timing is really August when it put in front of Congress. Forget all this email and telephone calls to the Senate and White House. Go and see your Congressman NOW because ultimately, that is who can kill this deal, the Senate and White House are all on board already...