America Should Stay Out Of The Middle East

Israel can look after itself. American Jews should get another hobby, perhaps Judaism, instead of lobbying on behalf of Israel.

I would like an American foreign policy of resisting invasion of America (including by Mexicans) and abstaining from invasion of other countries.

Every host nation has the right to demand that its citizens put the country first before any foreign power and if Americans want to obsess about Israel and lobby for Israel or Taiwan or Mexico or China, they should move to the countries they obsess about. If you want to obsess about America, live in America. Don’t wave the flags of foreign powers more prominently than you wave the American flag.

From Politico:

“The region is an economic dwarf. Its combined GDP—even including oil—represents roughly 6 percent of world GDP. Its population is closer to 5 percent of world population, and its military forces are similarly unimpressive. As the iconoclastic scholar Edward Luttwak has pointed out, America’s Middle East analysts frequently fall victim to the “Mussolini syndrome” when thinking about the region, attributing “real military strength to backward societies whose populations can sustain excellent insurgencies but not modern military forces.” No Middle Eastern state can project power outside the region—not Iran, which spends about $18 billion per year on defense, and not Saudi Arabia, despite its roughly $60 billion in annual military spending.”

The American Conservative: “What silver lining? It’s rooted in the fact that the Mideast may now actually matter much less than we think it does. We do have the option of pretty much ignoring it, if we choose. Its contribution to the world economy is negligible. Its oil will reach the market one way or another. The security and well-being of the American people is not linked to the survival of a Shi’ite regime in Baghdad, a medieval monarch in Riyadh, or, for that matter, a Jewish state in Jerusalem. Recognition of this fact is only beginning to seep into the discourse…”

About Luke Ford

I've written five books (see Amazon.com). My work has been covered in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and on 60 Minutes. I teach Alexander Technique in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com).
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