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A fair and genuine question for the Righties and Neo-cons.
This may help answer some questions as to the why our involvement continues.Vegas » 42 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ We lent enough of a hand during WWII and after in the rebuilding. None of that was long term commitment. We fought because of Pearl Harbor. We helped rebuild Europe for the sake of a functioning global economy. There was no real justification to help the Jews establish a nation and especially be committed to them for decades. We already knew ahead of time the problems that would cause. Yet, we did it anyway. The Jews had so many options after the war. Almost all of Europe would have accepted them. Instead, they demanded their precious holy land and manipulated the US to make that happen. Consequently, America has had a target on its back from Israel's enemies since then. Their enemies are now our enemies. They weren't our enemies before.
https://www.fpri.org/article/2003/09/th ... ith-islam/
The meaning of religion in this context must also be clarified. Religion can be many things from a cosmology or a normative code to a social contract, and a sacred narrative is often connected with those other meanings. Discussing religion in such terms leads to culture, the physical artifice of which is a civilization. Arab Muslims describe Islam as a religious civilization, and Christian Arabs concur with them on the identity of Arab civilization. Interpreting a conflict in religious terms means that political and other decisions will be described in those terms. Thus, the distinction between religious and national conflicts fades, and the Arab-Israeli conflict engages many countries that would not otherwise be involved. Regimes, often secular ones, that lack democratic legitimacy use this struggle to bolster their own standing. Non-Muslim states such as India that might otherwise have common interests with Israel adopt a different view to avoid antagonizing Islamic groups. Garfinkle noted that the United States has no choice whether others define the conflict through a religious prism, and the revival of identity politics accentuates religion’s role.
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