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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Geez, I hadn't noticed. Thanks for clarifying.
And I'm sure you noticed that when you are talking about religious loons, you are talking about, err, religioius loons. The loons in one country hate the loons in the other country and will kill all the other people who don't follow their loony religion.
There are loons in every country in the region, willing to kill and be killed for whatever old religious differences they have. If the Americans cease "supervising" (which they've done such a hell of a job of) they aren't going to cooperate. If they do "work it out on their own" without supervision, the 50 or 60 people left over will have a hell of a long way to go to achieve superpower status.
It's an imaginative excuse though. Better than some of the others I've heard for advocating this kind of "supervision".
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I'm not sure if you knew this, but the Europeans worked it out on their own too. As a matter of fact, the rise of every great power in history was done as a result of a lot of blood. They'd work it out on their own, all right. That's where it was heading when Iraq invaded Kuwait. Who in the area has the resources to sustain the status of a power if left alone? Which states in the area have would have the ability to fund a large military?
and AGAIN, I'm not suggesting that it be the US that supervises necessarily. DO YOU READ ME THIS TIME?