Actually, if you want to go waaaay back, you can certainly point out that not intervening in the Suez Crisis in 1956 planted the seeds in the Arab mindset that the US wouldn't be willing to stand up for its friends, allies and interests. You can certainly make a case that if we had joined with the Brits and smacked Nasser hard, we would have looked stronger in thew eyes of a lot of people in the Middle East.

 

But life is complicated, especially when dealing with that part of the world.

If you really wanna go back...the French invasion of Egypt under Napoleon back in 1798 was what really got the whole process of the West trying to conquer and control that area started.

If you really wanna go back...the French invasion of Egypt under Napoleon back in 1798 was what really got the whole process of the West trying to conquer and control that area started.

 

I'll see your Napoleonic adventure, and raise you Le Chanson de Roland.

 

 

So there!

LEt's just blame it on the Greeks and Persians and be done with it.

LEt's just blame it on the Greeks and Persians and be done with it.

Come on...I was all ready to take this back to the mass of energy that existed for fractions of a second after the big bang before things cooled enough for electrons to form!