Edward Morrissey: Khe Sanh?
Edward Morrissey: sorry, showing off.;-)
Nick Gillespie: the middle east has been screwed up for a long time -- even predating the colonial adventures of europe. and it will almost certainly be screwed up for a long time after we were there.
Judd Legum: Nick, that may be true, but it doesn't mean the mess we've created there is insignificant.
Judd Legum: Things can go from bad to worse.
Edward Morrissey: I agree with that, Nick, which is why we need to stop relying so much on energy that comes primarily from that region ...
Edward Morrissey: We buy more oil from Canada and Mexico, but our impact on the market makes that region more important than it should be.
Nick Gillespie: sadly, i think, we missed the real opportunity to put fundamentalist islam on the run: we could have supported the growing student movement in iran that was dissatisfied with the islamic republic.
Nick Gillespie: we might have aided a true grassroots revolution against the very apotheosis of an islamic state.
Nick Gillespie: but instead we went after saddam.
Otis Hart is an asap reporter based in New York.
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