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Originally Posted by theknife
in 50 years of Middle East history, including our experience in Afghanistan and Iraq, there's not much evidence that there are military solutions to these problems (in fact, just the opposite).
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You're probably right. The only people who have the ability and the
authority to reign in the militant Islamist factions is the rest of the collective Muslim world, in this case the member states of the Arab League. We're right to protect Israel's interests as far as they may lead to peace, but the rest of the Arab world would be so much better at it if peace is what they truely wanted. I guess the trick would be to convince Saudia Arabia and Egypt and Jordan and Iraq and a few other key players to publicly endorse Israel's sovereignty, and with those endorsements maybe Syria, Palestine, and Iran might back down too. Sounds hard, I know, but no more difficult than invading Iraq, and we could probably do it without killing anybody.
But this could all be wishfull thinking on my part.