Helpful person wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 11:40:59 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2016-01-12 10:57 AM, Helpful person wrote:
>>> On Friday, January 8, 2016 at 7:23:48 PM UTC-5, sf wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Now Trump wants to bomb Iraq's oil fields, which means more oil fires.
>>>> Iraq isn't the problem, it's Saudi Arabia.
>>>>
>>> Perhaps. However, like many areas of the world the Middle East was fairly stable until the USA decided to fix its problems.
>>>
>>
>> When was the Middle East Stable? Troubles started there long before the
>> US had any involvement.
>
> It was relatively stable after about 1950. Conflicts were localized.
>
> http://www.richardfisher.com
>

That was the beauty of strongmen like the Shah, Saddam, Nasser, Mubarak,
etc.

We ****ed around and re-broke it all.