Gaurdians of the gate.
The region serves as a barrier between Europe and the Middle East. It is in the U.S. interest that it remain so.
The U.S. foreign policy seems to waffle on the idea that issues in the region are a European concern and we stay out....unless the muslim population is infringed upon then we seem to get involved.
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"There are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations"
James Madison
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