How many times will it take Republican presidents fucking up in the Middle East before Republican presidents realize that it’s a Really Bad Idea to fuck around in the Middle East?! I mean, you had Ike doing that whole coup thing in Iran that ended up with the blowback of the rule of the Ayatollahs, you had Nixon managing to get the whole Middle East pissed off enough that we had gas rationing in the USA, you had Reagan arming the Taliban to fight the Russians (okay, so that’s actually West Asia, not the Middle East, but still) with blowback that’s still ongoing today, not to mention his Lebanon fiasco (where he at least had the sense to bring the troops home after 241 Marines got blown up, after blowing up a bunch of neighborhoods full of innocent people with unguided shells from the U.S.S. New Jersey and declaring victory), then of course there was Dubya’s Fine Iraqi Adventure which destabilized Syria and Jordan too (Jordan is still holding together, barely, Syria of course had a huge blowout), and now Trump is playing in that sandbox? For realz?
When do these Republican presidents ever learn?
SIGH.
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