yup, we need a brutal strongman type back in charge in Iraq

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16. Then what is to be done? Invade Iraq again?

From the time of Ur the vast majority of human lives have been lived in a brutal autocracy. Democracy is a very rare thing, republics even moreso.

Fracking has freed America from caring too much about that part of the world. They used to have us by the short-hairs with the oil but not really anymore. In central Africa there has been a huge war going on for decades that is mostly the same old nilotic v. bantu war that has been going on for centuries. In recent years north of 5 million people have died. But no one cares because there are no really important things in central africa that we cannot get.

The middle east is not our problem. White Man's Burden is over ( and pretty racist).

on edit: People everywhere do not want the same things. There are teeming ethnic and religious disputes that are unsolvable. Trying to solve the world's problems is a fool's errand.