On 2016-01-12 12:52 PM, 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.

It used to be part of the Ottoman Empire, but that collapsed. The Arab
Revolt that happened alongside WWI was part of that. The Kurds and Iraq
have been at each other for close to 100 years. Then there was the
Franco-Syrian War, the Iraqi revolt against the British, The Adwan
Rebellion, The Great Syrian Revolt, the Sheik Dai Rebellion, Ararat
REbellion , The Saudi Yemeni War, THe Yazidi Rebellion, the Derism
REbellion, Iran crisis of 1946 and then a number of Arab-Israeli conflicts.