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Continuation of a policy that presidents of both parties have espoused for decades. Our more recent adventures in the middle east have been less than successful because we ruined our "good guy of the world" status just to go after Saddam. Bush acting unilaterally in Iraq made intervention in the region practically useless for the foreseeable future. Typical that you think our mid-east policy began eight years ago rather than 70 years ago.While I agree with him that we should not be so interventionist in shitty little conflicts around the world we cannot just precipitously turn around a 70 year policy in the space of a single presidential term. Power vacuums always get filled with the worst kind of people.I read your post and wondered what kind of fool would even suggest such a thing? Turns out it's Ron Paul, the source of some of the most foolish ideas in American politics.
There's good reason why that idiot didn't win his Presidential campaign.
Like: "We have nuclear weapons, why shouldn't Iran have nuclear weapons."
We didn't just turn around that policy. Remember what happened after Obama's disastrous interventions in Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, and Syria.