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berniepanders posted...

streamofthesky posted...

I still think the best way to handle the Middle East is to just let them fight each other

if they would stick to just fighting each other this would definitely be the best way to handle it, but at this point enough resentment towards the west has built up that groups like isis and al-qaeda before them will never stop coming at the west

But in general that is what Obama did. They're fighting each other in Egypt, Syria, Lybia, Yemen, etc.. We drone bomb, but didn't send in armies. He kept us out of those messes and yeah they're hives of anarchy and destruction, but...we're not personally stuck there at least. ISIS tries to conduct terror plots in our country, but so did al-qaeda and others before them already. Same drill, gotta invest in security at airports, sporting events, etc.. I venture that ISIS would've aimed to strike at us in our own country whether we got involved at all or not. The prestige among terror groups of killing Americans on their own home turf is significant.
It's not perfect, they do try to divert from killing each other to kill us, but Obama did about as good a job keeping their guns pointed at each other as one can.