Get ready for more analysis like this. The irony is self-evident: the mainstream media is implying that American power is a force for good. That these countries are falling apart in the absence of a strong American political and military presence. What they leave out, of course, is that all of these countries were radically destabilized by American foreign policy: invasions, propping up corrupt, unpopular dictatorships, funneling arms in civil conflicts, sometimes to both sides, and so on.
This narrative is interestingly analogous to the rise of the Nazis in Germany during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Nazis would brawl in the streets, disturbing the public order. Then they would tell the authorities that only they could restore peace in the streets. The peace that they themselves had destroyed.
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Same as when we were there: no matter how bad things got, they’d be much worse if the US wasn’t there. No matter that our force had invaded and become a violence magnet. And since, the Sunnis have been denied representation in Iraq.
This is going to be hell on the opium trade.
Whatever happened to MAD? (“Mutual Assured Destruction” – for the young’uns in the group)
Israel’s got the bomb. Therefore, the only way to assure peace is to make sure that Iran (Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, UAE…) gets one as well. Of course, we could sanction Israel until they give up their illegal nuclear ambitions. But that would … (wait for it) … destabilize the region.