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I am anti-BDS. I don't think we should sanction Israel. I think we should let them be. BDS is certainly not good for Israel.
Many liberals are against Saudi Arabia. It's Trump's rich friends that want to keep ties with them.
And for the record, if I were to pick an ally in the middle east, it would be Israel.
I watched the Maher clip. Now it's your turn. Take 10 minutes out of your day to go to page 631 of the "Best President ever" thread and read up. I can copy/paste it here to make it easier on you if you want.
Picking an ally in the Middle East...too bad that can't be an ally for strategic reasons rather than the least evil regime. Strategically, Turkey, Egypt then Iraq would win the prize.
INTERESTING.
Only Israel is reliable and strategic and strong.
I was referring to location, doug. Turkey, controlling the entrance to the Black Sea, is the clear winner. Peter the Great recognized that over 300 years ago. Egypt, controlling the Suez, is a close 2nd.
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It was the paperback version of PETER THE GREAT but I wore that book out. Pre computer. Fascinating.
Poltava and Narva and Charles and the great Northern War. The last of Nordic dominance wiped away.
But those things are ancient history. The physical entrance or exit into the Mediterranean from that local are suspect.
As a bomb takes out the Brooklyn Bridge, so goes a canal. Technology is unthinking.
It is our constant tension of localized and crippling attacks against our people countered by a total and planetary significant destruction of whole regions of the world that keep sane and reasonable regimes in check. It's the unreasonable ones you gotta worry about.
And regardless of their state of mind or weather they believe you or not, you must be ready to crush them. At worst case you are no longer a factor in world politics, if it still exists, but at least you took one for team civilization.
I directly refer to Iran and North Korea.