09-03-2008, 11:22 AM
Kaan Wrote:The issue with Israel started in WW1. When the allies broke up the young turkish republic and created the hostile region. welcome to shit we shouldnt have done decades ago. we are kind of stuck with it now. and we cant really go back on it or we lose ALL footholds in the region.
Kaan, seriously?
Israel wasn't created until 1948, and the allies didn't break up any young Turkish republics. They *did* partition the old ottoman empire, especially after the Arab revolt left all of Palestine and the Sinai out of Ottoman control, nevermind the unrest and pending revolt in that area prior to WWI (The Balkans and Lybia being prime examples). In the end, we should have stayed out of it from the start, but we shouldn't be in the nation building business at all, ever. But if you really want to blame somebody for starting all this mess, blame France and Great Britain, not the United States...blame the US for having idiotic policies afterwards.
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