Why dont we just make the Middle East a new  America #2?
414969
How much of your money are you willing to spend to do that?
813991
IMHO, That was always the plan. The US would LOVE to have a stable base in the middle east to secure their oil supply, the silk road, (imports from China), and the drug trade. Opium has to be grown somewhere, and Big international companies need it to make legitimate pain medications.
822583
There's a whole nation to the north of you that has a higher standard of living, its economy is in better shape, the minimum wage is higher, has universal health care instead of a bloated military that spends trillions on weapons that are never used, is not obsessed with imposing one religion or another on its multicultural citizens, is present as peacekeepers in the world's hotspots, has soldiers coming home dead or injured due to American "friendly fire", has marriage for all, and is a parliamentary democracy. It's the second largest nation on the planet, shares the North American continent, and by and large, most of its population has no desire to be American.
25859
Because we are one week from free elections.  Because if we can have a democratic foothold there, it would go a long way to having democratic societies pop up throughout the Middle East.
111829
The only reason America gives a flying fuck about the Middle East at all is because of oil. Anyone who says other wise is stupid
687761
I feel America does not want to control territory as such.It only wants to maintain its supremacy and balance of world power.Controlling new territories is not good for the USA instead it is troublesome for them to hold on to foreign countries.
1011654
You could give all of Israel to Palastine and it wouldn't be enough.  It's that the Jews are despised in the mid east and have been since biblical times.  I don't think the Arabs would be happy unless Jews were wiped off the face of Earth.  Then they would concentrate on someone else.
367124
good idea..then we can actually call ourselves the United States Of Israel.
26989
Because Israel is the only democratic state in the Middle east.  It is very important that we have democratic allies in that dangerious region of the globe.
1002231
yes i do think that way coz it is mail&#92;nly wanting the oil found in the middle east. n also that an estimation proves that after 30 years to cum, there will be no oil anywhere around the world. therefore the US is trying to put its policies on the midle east to get the oil from them!!!!
751527
Arcane are you  crazy?  Their are a lot more modernized middle eastern countries that Iraq.  I have been to a couple different countries and I saw nothing that even Iraq.  You need to know what you are talking about before you start saying stuff like that.  One other thing I want to tell you about.  If the Iraqis didn't want us there all they had to do is run us out,  but they are going through what we did  in our civil war, Losing life's, homes, family and what not they know that it is a necessary evil but most of them are ready for a change.  There have been more business open up in the last year than any other year in their history.  Soon as they can show that their military is able and willing we will be out but no sooner.  It would be a disgrace to the US and its people if we left now and let total hell rain down upon them.
462115
I hate to say it, but pretty soon there will not be much to fight over in the Middle East. My husband is from Kuwait, and I am from the US. We feel right now the money is in the Middle East, because of the Oil. Because the world changes and someday the world will not be as oil dependent, then what will there will be not as much to fight over.\n\nAt that time we will be dependent on another area of the world, and the wars will start there.
671113
I think you may find that recent usa activity in the middle east is at least questionable in some countries.\nAnd this Iran thing now... \nYou could only hear muslims (don't get me wrong here) before, talking bad about america, now it's a global discussion...\nNo conclusion. Just thinking...\n\nI don't dislike americans. Have to go there and see what is this "new world" deal all about. lol.\nWhat's the best way to contact you? email me.
261546
My husband thinks it might; his favorite expression is "just drop the bomb on them." In the sense that nobody would ever again doubt that the US is the biggest, meanest dog on the block, perhaps a facsimilie of world peace might result if we blow the Middle East sky high. It would be the peace of fear, though, the modern day equivalent to Pax Romana. And, as with the fastest gun in the West, there's always somebody aiming at you from behind. I don't think nuking the Middle East is really the answer, but it's a tempting thought.
373388
Tfhe US government does not want any new nations to have nuclear capabilities.  Especially ones that are agressive and terroristic.  I say this because the Iran Government has already stated that Isreal has no right to exist and needs to be eradicated.
572505
No. We've been here before with Korea and Vietnam. America would be incredibly stupid to make the same mistake again. \n\nIf America invades Iran (as America, and not through its proxy, Israel) America will be taken apart and humiliated in several ways:\n\n1 Militarily - America never wins such wars. It does not understand the passion of the peoples it oppresses. It always makes the mistake that military might wins out - it rarely does - the spirit of the people brings victory - and that spirit swells in the oppressed.\n\n2 Politically - all the World, and notably Europe, with Russia and China, will stand against America.\n\n3 Economically - the Islamic World will decimate US trade, not just oil, but shipping, property, automobile, air, military sales - you name it.\n\nThere will be no third World War over Iran - but America will be mightily defeated by the will of the third World.
428005
Yes I agree in the sense that the US needs to get off its dependence of oil. Since most of the oil comes from the middle east it may not be wise to give money (or trade) with the region that probbaly has the most hostile attiude toward us.