I'm not suggesting that it was peaceful before that
I'm saying that when the Ottomans backed the wrong horse in WWI and the Brits pulled out, there was a giant power vacuum that was not well filled. Jews displacing Palestinians, disposed Kurds spread across a number of countries, Sunnis ruling Shiites, Shiites ruling Sunnis, tinpot dictators and religious fanatics, western businesses backing whoever favored their interests ... I'm not trying to assign blame, I'm saying only that the place has been monumentally fouled up for a century now. It's not going to unfoul itself overnight, and when you drop bombs on things all you're doing is creating a new vacuum and hoping someone nicer steps in to fill it.
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Posted: 07/18/2016 at 1:38PM