Originally Posted by
Stumplicker
That did work out exceptionally well for America. We had minimal involvement comparatively in the war because we were geopolitically sound and didn't have to come in until the USSR, China, France, and England had shouldered the lion's share of the damage. The rest of the world got completely leveled by bombs, we came out of it with about a million IOU's and shared technological breakthroughs from lend leases and it ushered in a 50 year golden age because we were one of the only countries with infrastructure left to produce anything, which wouldn't ya know it, the whole world needed. And hey, rocketry and operation paperclip landed us on the moon!
But yes, I am saying that in the last 1000 years, foreign powers fucking around with the middle east has produced the desired outcome zero times. Making the situation worse in the middle east by military means has a 100% success rate.