re: Is it possible for us to tell BOTH the Jews and the Muslims in the Middle East to GFY?

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So the U.S. leaving the Middle East alone = hundreds of millions of dead people. Got it.

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If that's the thing that would have stopped Israel from feeling it has an existential threat against them, then yeah.

Look, I don't want to be world police either. And we can disentangle from almost all places we are currently fricking someone over in. But Israel is a problem of geography and nuclear weapons. Small geography, big nuclear weapons. And they have a propensity towards thinking they're all about to die because history has proven, they're right about that a lot.

We don't have to fight it for them, but we might have to actively help at some point to put this shite to bed. It's not going to end till someone surrenders. Diplomacy there is a joke. They will never not hate their neighbors there. Sometimes life teaches harsh lessons. This is one of those kinds of problems unfortunately.