Rus: You haven’t broken any rules, you’re simply expressing your opinion. I don’t agree with parts of it, and I do agree with other parts.
It’s a simplistic view of both history and foreign policy. To posit that America is just a rapacious, slavering war machine is facile and incorrect and it doesn’t square with history.
However, there are elements that are correct and we need to substantially review and revise how we behave in the world, on that score you’re correct.
I find the notion that all conservatives are bible thumping Jesus lovers with no ability to think for themselves or formulate coherent sentences as both puerile and condescending. Several of the posters on this board think similarly and the irony is that notion is more fitting to their way of thinking and expression.
The idea that the Middle East in toto has been nothing other than a victim of the West and history is moral infantilism and used conveniently by the Left as a means of forgiveness for all the acts of terrorism and horror that the various groups in the region have perpetrated on us and their coreligionists.
Visibly absent from your timeline are the so-called “Arab-Israeli Wars” of 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973. It shows the 1967 war as an Israeli attack, when in fact it was a pre-emptive strike against the Arab armies massing against them.
If you’re going to present facts, present them ALL.
