Jordanian Press Blames World for Not Resolving Occupation
Anyone living in the Middle East who expects European countries and/or the United States to settle the Middle Eastern problems is delusional. Foreign intervention has historically only destabilized the Middle East. It's up to the people with a stake in their problems to settle them. It's called taking responsibility and acting like adults.
As Erica Jong wrote, "Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."
2 comments:
It's a catch 22, isn't it? Since the western world screwed up the politics of the region in the first place, we are obligated to assist when needed or else we are percieved as careless and basically evil. But at the same time, if we help, they never learn to do things on their own and resent our long term presence and influence.
I don't believe we're obliged to help Middle Eastern countries at all. The only export Middle Eastern countries (Israel aside) have to offer is a finite amount of oil. We no longer need Middle Eastern oil, but the access to power by the corporatocracy is enormous. Does anyone believe that American soldiers would be dying in Iraq if their only export were petunias? At least Israel exports agricultural and mineral products in addition to intellectual output.
If, and this is huge if, America's elected officials were proactive, intelligent, and truly concerned about America's future, we would have been independent of Middle Eastern oil by 1984, 10 years after the first OPEC oil embargo.
What we have here is a lack of political will and legacy thinking from the Cold War. Israel is no longer needed as a bulwark against the Red Menace.
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