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Ah, so you're cool with an Al Qaeda like takeover of the ME? You think that will be good for US interests?
Interesting.
Mothra, do you really think any of that matters right now? Voters have spoken, they don't care what happens in the ME as long as the US is not involved.
However, now that the elections are over, I would say Trump needs to do whatever is possible to bring gas prices down and get oil flowing through the strait at pre-war levels. He has a little over a year to do this.
If good policy depends on what is popular then we are in trouble. I would submit that our electorate doesn't have a good sense of what good policy is even if it's popular. So that's kind of superfluous and irrelevant to my point.
The real question should be is it in America's best interest to leave the Middle East to take over by radicals? Is it good policy to no longer push back against nuclear proliferation there. That's what we should be asking. Whether it's popular is irrelevant.
I would submit endless wars and insurmountable debt destroying the country thereby turning it over to the communists is bad policy.