Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
God it would be so bad if it came to that. The fallout of US on the national stage would probably be worse than what the Iraq War did. People forget that US has guaranteed security for some Arab oil-producing regimes since WW2, and those regimes now rely on it. US not handling this situation would be like your friends abandoning you in a brawl after they said "we got your back, yo" a bunch of times
While I can agree with the most of what you say in this thread, this is pretty hogwash.