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Originally Posted by Daldolma
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it's not really a matter of it being our job. it's a matter of national interest
we have an interest in keeping syria destabilized
also our support for israel is our in with the whole middle east. we basically have american sparta in the center of the most oil-rich region on the planet for the cost of relative pennies. we give more to pakistan plus egypt than we give to israel, and we could launch a war from israel. pakistan wouldn't even give us osama. if we could buy pakistan as cheaply as we bought israel, we would
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Actually it's not in our interest. Stable governments facilitate trade and business. Assad is not even winning, and I wouldn't put Iran on the list of highest plausible threats.
However, the bigger points I'd like to make are about Israel. Israel is not at all in our interest. While at one point you could argue that Israel was our door into the Middle East, now it is a source of tension with some of our closest allies, and strains our relations worldwide. It harms our relations with other countries in the Middle East, and implicates us in human rights violations. We have used so so many UN vetoes to trump even our Western allies. Israel also now serves as little economic interest to us in the international arena, but bears some economic importance domestically pertaining to maintaining the support from the Israel and Jewish lobbies. Israel has turned into a liability, alienating us from others, requiring foreign aid, and creating imbalance in a region that may have been on its way to healing wounds long ago if it wasn't constantly being interrupted.
Additionally, I do not support destabilizing a region and causing death to better one's own position. While I already said I don't think it does better our position, I wouldn't support the policy even if it did. Blatant imperialism is out of style, subtle economic manipulation is in, didn't you hear?