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We can't afford to have the Persian Gulf completely unstable even more.

Six decades of continual intervention in that region obviously hasn't furthered that goal. Let's try non-intervention for a change. What is your alternative? Follow our new president in a Wilsonian crusade in that region?

Six decades my arse - if we were half as committed to the region in the past 20 years as we were in SouthEast Asia from the end of World War 2 to the end of Vietnam we may not be having these issues. Yes that means we are into Iraq in 1991. Yes that likely means a head to head with the Mullahs in Iran in the mid-80s.

I don't give a crap who the President is - we are there to stay and we will NOT let the region go completely into anarchy. It's just not in the cards be it Reagan or Bush or W or Obama.