You make assumptions where none need be made. No suggestion of withdrawing from the world stage was proffered. Like repugnicunts before you, you somehow conflate disengagement from the Middle East will usher the decline of civilizations. Laughable. Has North Korea surpassed us? Has engagement with China bolstered our technological superiority? Quite the opposite. Were it not for the US conferring "Most Favored Nation" trade status upon those bastards, they would still be 20 to 30 years behind the US in ballistic missile technology. Their aerospace industry would be non-existent and they would still be sorting through our trash looking for viable scraps to refurbish and sell. If at the end of Drumph's reign, we have any allies besides Russia, we should continue to maintain those relationships. If you believe that the Middle East has the capacity to surpass the US were the Western world to isolate them, then you are certainly no student of history, current affairs, or reality. All the more evidence of the paucity of reasoning skills among the Drumph collective (re: Star Trek's Borg Collective).
My ******* was fond of a saying which I believe at this moment to be apropos. "Better to remain silent and be thought the fool than to speak and remove all doubt." It is advice you should heed.
Maybe not North Korea as dictatorships rarely ( like Volkswagen came out of Nazi Germany (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen) but one can argue that the Nazis were more fascists possibly? ) nurture industry and technological growth. As far as I have seen only models from capitalist countries create such companies like Apple, Microsoft, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, Deutsche Bank, Virgin by Branson, and a lot of others.
I did not suggest the Middle East would conquer the world. I painted a scenario whereby if America were to shut herself off to the world for a certain period of time and became absolutely an hermitic country without any form of trade or commerce outside her borders like you suggested where you colorfully stated America might fall behind:
"What was unclear about what I said??? Pack up and get the fuck out of the Middle East! E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E! You may care about oil contracts, I don't. I care about American lives being subordinate to business. Now is a great time to make a concerted effort to get off oil anyway. Fuck the kingdom of Saud. Fuck the Yemeni's. Fuck Iraq and fuck the U.A.E. "
Courtesy of
@edlarson
(
https://www.blacktowhite.net/threads/go-trump.160047/post-2743631 )
It must be hard for you to negotiate with anyone as you seem to enjoy to fuck everybody? It must be hard to be your neighbor? Qutb would thank you but that is probably a story from history that you are apparently oblivious
@edlarson .
But the Middle East has contributed a lot outside of oil: as 3 of the great religions emerge from there, the game of Chess as we understand it today came out of the Middle East courtesy from traders from the Indian Subcontinent to Persian traders ( Doubt me? If you play have you ever heard of the term "checkmate"? It comes right out of Persian as "check" ~ "shah" (or king) and "mate" ~ "mat" (or death) (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkmate) (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess)), as well as all of the accomplishments just from Israel (
https://interestingengineering.com/11-israeli-inventions-that-have-changed-the-world-for-the-better,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_inventions_and_discoveries ).
By the way Chess is more than a mere game as it teaches strategy and it enhances one's ability in mathematics and logical reasoning. (
https://www.stabroeknews.com/2015/05/03/features/more-countries-introducing-chess-in-schools/) And the US military thinks of chess so highly they have their own Armed Forces Chess Competition too (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces_Chess).
But getting back to the Middle East if you are so determined with your belief
@edlarson that those from the Middle East cannot offer any contributions to America, be sure to remove Rashida Tlaib (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashida_Tlaib) as a Democrat from the House of Representatives as part of her heritage emerges from Palestine, if you decide to go that far back? President Trump
, or as you prefer to call him by his original family name, will thank you for it
@edlarson.
By the way I am a fan of Star Trek too
@edlarson . Was not Seven of Nine known for her logic on the Voyager series despite after being removed from the Borg collective? And she is also to appear on the new Picard series, can't wait! Resistance is futile!
