From: "Phil Payne" 

> > I'm really not sure why the USA is so obsessed with the Middle East.
Over
> > the long term, disaster is inevitable.  Leaving a state of stability is
> > always dangerous.

> We just went along with the obsession of our British founding fathers, the
> Jewish lobby, religion/Holy Land propaganda, stable energy supplies,
......?

We still got those, but I don't think we let ourselves be led that way any
more.  We do, after all, have a long history of failure in that region.

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