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leveymg

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8. No, I believe in rewarding our friends and punishing our enemies. And in making better distinctions.
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 11:54 AM
Jun 2015

Many of our "friends," particularly in the Mideast, aren't. They are commercial trading partners, some of whom provide bulk energy supplies and have huge investments in U.S. based multinationals, real estate, and defense industries, while others are economic dependencies. Both types routinely intervene in the US political process, in their own ways, and regularly threaten us with dire consequences if we don't indulge their mutual paranoia about terrorist factions supported by the other. They are not our friends, but not entirely our enemies.

To label and treat them as either one or the other has been the source of decades of lethal mistakes and miscalculation.

To be more cautious and to demand accountability from both is not Isolationist. It is self-preservationist.

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