Wouldn't it be much easier for the US & Israel to just conquer the Mideast rather than........................

Question

having to deal with each inevitable major mess(es) that come up every month?

terrorists, oil, dictators, civil wars, ethnic wars, tribal wars, religious wars, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iran's nukes, & the list goes on & on.

The only time the Mideast ever had any relative peace was when the Otttoman Empire conquered & ruled the entire Mideast. Maybe the Mideast can't handle Democracy but they sure do no how to be ruled with an iron fist (e.g. Ottomans & Saddam)

So rather than trying to put out every little fire that springs up all over the "forest" (Mideast) why not have the US/Israel cut down (conquer) the entire "forest" so that no fires can get started in the first place? Or does that just make to much sense to be tried?

Answer 1

once hillary is president we won't have to worry about the middle east anymore, we will just pull our soldiers out and let everything take care of itself.

Answer 2

RANA...let Israel fend for itself? Are you mad? Crazed? That would almost certainly guarantee you the answer to the question above. For if ever Israel has to defend herself like she has in the past the world will be rocked to the core like never before. The ties, be they real or not, that the nations of that region have, and those of other nations as it concernes that region are such that a world war would result from forcing Israel to defend herself. Do you have some form of blinders on when it comes to right or wrong? The question above is truly the unfortunate easy answer, and one I have asked also, only to come to the conclusion one of the other answerers did, that doing right is not always the easiest. Perhaps, just perhaps the right thing is the easy thing in this case. Perhaps we should just join together and jump into the fray like a berserker? I do not think that the people of the middle east can be conquered in any real sense, only temporarily, for they have long memories when wronged or when they percieve that they have been wronged. The day would come when someone of them would gather enough of them together to start it all up again. I am not sure, but believe it possible that the people of that region still view wars as small things. That spread out and isolated as they are they naively go on thinking it is personal, (yes, it is and should be) that they view it the way most would a fight between two men, and that there are clear winners and losers. While I admire this in them to a degree, I also look down on them, for they are kept ignorant by their leaders and are therefor easily led. They are a conundrum, on one hand the cradle of civilization, on the other the seat of the most savage of mens dreams.

Answer 3

No, conquest is both against the UN charter, and terribly inconvenient. You have to supress and adminster whole conquered populations. You think keeping a few hippies in line in Berkely is tough, or that Iraq is a 'nightmare' and 'quagmire,' try forging an empire in the middle east.

Answer 4

I was a sceptic and did not believe all the fancy stories in the Bible. For example about that prophesy about the Battle of Armageddon. But on seeing how things are taking shape ,slowly but surely, I can hear the confidant thud of the footstep of Marshall Armageddon coming near,near and yet more near. I can see the bull with the small but pointed horns slowly forming itself before my very eyes. When Soviet Russia collapsed and the threats of a final showdown between USA and USSR receded and the skies cleared my disbelief in the Scriptures was strengthened but before my eyes dark clouds suddenly appeared from a corner of the sky and loomed over Afghanistan, Iraq and now slowly but surely moving over Iran. In an interlude they had partly moved tothe Far East over North Korea confirming my disbrlied. But then as suddenly they have cleared and the Middle East skies--the skies over the Gounds of Armageddon, the area mentioned in the scriptures where its coordinates have been given started tobecome dark, darker and still more darker.The sudden recent collapse of Pakistan has made the coloure more lurid. An otherwise sober America which had taken especial efforts for the formation of UNO has almost overnight(but I am now convinced that it is not that sudden. It is well said 'God makes them mad whom He wants to destroy) America's visage has changed . It has become more beastly. The prophesy of the Beast in the Bible is slowly being realised.The question under consideration the asker is perhaps an commonAmerican citizen shows how the madness predicted in the Bible has perlocated to the lowest level.

I would have liked to continue with my non-belief. In fact,in the era immediatly after the WWII I had heard rumours about creation of a State of Israel in Africa somewhere near the rise of the Nile. I had learnt about the demarcation of the area and securing agreements from the neighbouring states for the proposals. Whatever may be the feelingf about the Jews the world over we in India ,known even in ancientr times about religious tolerlance, have nothing but appreciation for them. You may not believe but when the last batch of Jews was leaving for Israel there were emotional outbursts amoung their Muslim and Hindu neighbourer as if they were being deprived of t heir near and dear ones. The grief was mutual. As I alwlays say if some day a Second Exodus starts we would welcome back our long lost brothers back.The Diktimkar Road houses where they once lived are waiting to welcome them back.That was a digression as I was carried away by emotions. And before our very eyes the eminently reasonable proposal of an Israel in Africa withered away and some old and exploded theories of the Promised Land came tothe surface and the Battle of Palestine intensified and before our very eyes Muslim families rootedthere God knows since when have been uprooted and Israel materialised there.The Prophesies have a knack to come true suddenly. Suddenly out of almost nowhere the dark clouds started gathering over the predicted site of the Battle of Armageddon, the battlelines are being drawn and with muffled dreams the world is beating funer marches to the Grave.I do not feel inclined to blame theGod,whom I did not believe till the other day, for bringing this situation about.Perhaps the time for Adam and Eve to repair to the precincts of the Garden of Aden has arrived.

I am not a Christian and do not know the terms of welcome. It is somjething like Hallagulla? Isn't it. In our language this word sigfnifies confusion ,chaos.

Answer 5

The US is not equipped militarily nor psychologically to occupy and rule, which is what would be required after the conquer step.

Answer 6

Israel? What are they going to do? Their entire military is given to them by us.

We just need to conquer the places with oil.

Answer 7

It would be easier for the US to stop giving support to Israel and let them fend for themselves. If that would happen the Mid East wuold be much more stable.

Answer 8

naaa just attack and lay waste to anyone or anything that gets in the way of the war on terror.

Answer 9

Easier yes, but the right thing to do is seldom the easiest thing to do.

Answer 10

yes