Re: "In relatively modern times Middle East intervention began with the British"
Absolutely correct. (Just as in *South East* Asia, it was mostly the Colonial powers of the time - the Brits, Burma, etc., and the French, Indochina - who were doing most of the 'intervening'. That is, until they nearly went bankrupt doing so, and then managed to hoodwink the US into picking up the 'colonial burden'. :-(
"... and will at some point end with us, hopefully sooner than later."
One can only hope we wise up BEFORE our slide from the top of the heap becomes TOO STEEP and TOO FAST! I.e., before TOO MUCH damage is done to America, TOO MUCH debt ladled on the backs of the American people - handicapping our growth prospects for decades to come, while our emerging COMPETITORS and RIVALS in this new century gain ground on us fast.
"Israel, without the intervention of the United States during the October 1973 war, would probably not exist today."
You are referring to the hurried up arms resupply during the war?
I'll admit the resupply was important to Israel (their bombs were running low, etc.), but I don't believe it was *decisive* in that conflict... because, if memory serves me, so much of the fighting had already gone in Israel's favor... and, without surviving air forces, (which were already destroyed at that point in time) I don't believe there would have been any way for the Arab states to have reversed their fortunes in the war.... |
