when you lay down with the dogs, you get up the fleas they say in Ol Ireland,
so what's to do in the Mideast ? I don't have all the answers but I think we can't continue to support dictators, the one despot we should have backed was Saddam because he was fightin a war with Iran , he occupied their venom and national focus, yes he did oppress a significant portion of his own population , but his was the most western leading nation in the region, are things any better there now ?
Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen.......what choice do we really have, the lesser of two evils or pick your poison , we really don't have a dog in this fight but we will be forced to live the consequences....remember when this was all about isreal and palastine....the good ol days.....how did they manage to extricate themselves from ths hostilities? i don't see anybody flying planes into buildings in tel aviv....in the end though it all comes down to money and quality of life, the unemployment rate in egypt is 33%.......it's a lot harder to convince a guy that has a job, a home, a wife and kids to strap a bomb to his chest and walk into an airport than it is someone living in poverty......it was the same way in northern Ireland... once the economy improved and all that western investment brought good jobs to Catholics and Protestants alike, they were able to ..if not live in peace, at least suspend the daily murdering of each other...let's see what follows in the next few years that their in financial disarray......lets hope these united states of ours can turn this thing around before we start loosing more and more people to hopelessness...oh the problems of the world are real my friends....my head hurts...maybe i'll turn on the news and see what justin beiber is up to today.
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