@mike_kraft what, all of them? let Saudi and Egypt collapse or lose a war to Iran and its proxies and just hope that whatever emerges is okay with us? watch a cornered Israel nuke Tehran, and then maybe vice versa?

i think that would be a bad mistake. we need to learn how to support the stability of states without being seen either to provoke or repress domestic political change. a world on fire is worth preventing in the meantime. the ashes rarely bring anything good.