Why does Iran doing what it does regionally affect the USA? Is the Middle East rightful US clay?
Why does the USA need an intelligence asset in the Middle East in the first place?
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If it's to the benefit of the USA, yes. Countries must look out for their own interests primarily. Problem is the USA is an Empire and seeks to maintain influence everywhere it can. The problem with empires is that vassals tend to drag their overlords into fights. Israel seemingly wants to pull the USA into a conflict with Iran.
If this is the case, why should any American be willing to die in Iran for the sake of Israel? Honest question. What is the argument that Americans must forfeit their lives for the sake of Israel?
If it prevents further escalation and is to the benefit of the USA I don't see why it wouldn't be right, in terms of America's interests. Again, treaty obligations are only as good as insofar as they work to the benefit of a country. Britain for instance guaranteed Belgium against it's interests in WW1. Said treaty obligation was not worth getting involved in WW1, despite any honour or moral obligation.
I'll be honest with you, I have never truly examined the real and actual benefits of the alliance between Israel and America.
My background being what it is, I know how to hate them, I am steeped in all to have
against Israel... But I have never sought to learn what benefits there are to the very real alliance between our two nations.
I have been taking what is happening right now from the position that these are serious alliances (one written into actual US law, a rare rare event), and they have a benefit to what the US sees as it's interests in the middle east.
I personally, as a Christian, as a former Muslim, and as an American citizen, would like to see America withdraw from some of what it sees as it's interests in the middle east.
The meddling has never made sense, why take out democraticlly elected leaders because they want to nationalize their oil? Money money money...
then the Dems, under the pretence of fixing it all, installed religious extremists into power who sit to this day a threat to everyone around them.
we have been conducting a Marxist/Leninist foreign policy on the world stage for far too long, I agree.
I'm not a complete complete isolationist, but what we've got going on needs to be seriously rethought as a nation, and a lot of this nonsense has to stop.
that's just real.
However, we can't Afghanistan withdraw from the world stage either....
We have to do the right things, in the right way, for the right reasons or it will fail.
We have to take this from today; it's the day we actually live in and have before us to deal with, and say okay, how do we do x,y, and z in the right way....
This is what I'm trying to do.
And right now, this does mean support of Israel and for the foreseeable future.
Is there going to come a point where we should sit back down and decide whether to continue support, sure, nothing wrong with putting all the facts together and making sure we are still doing the right thing someday. But this isn't that day so far as I can see.
But what Biden is doing now? He and the Democratic party can't be more wrong... What they are doing proves they are the last people on earth who should be doing anything.
They are doing WW3... In just a few years we are on the brink and now just going to dump the Jews in the middle of it alone?
I can't even say on this forum what I really think of that...
Trying to ties Israel's hands and oust a democratically elected leader is no better than full on abandonment, because that's not peace either....
Peace is taking out Hamas (wholesale) and going back to the diplomacy table to rebuild and make sure everyone is good.
Peace is making the Arabs help the Palestinian people for once in their lives... Instead of using them as constant propaganda. (Palestinians should have had citizenship in all the surrounding nations already, lives, jobs, futures..)
And of course, peace, is helping them live as neighbors once the bad actors are gone.
If it's peace we are after - which I am. I care about real peace. Not everyone cares about the same thing.