re: What is it gonna take for the USA to gtfo of the Middle East

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Small thing called oil

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OK. Why do we need to expend national treasure to secure the supply of oil to the rest of the world when we are energy independent and a net exporter of oil? Let the Europeans, the Russians, the Chinese, the Indians deal with all of it themselves and treat with the psychotic, tribal, deluded zealots of the region? Keep a battle group from the 6th fleet off the eastern Mediterranean coast with one instruction to all: “Don’t frick with Israel and if you do and Israel starts to blow you up, we told you so.”