What makes you think I am trying to show off when I use words that have more than one syllable?

You may have missed my sarcasm about Republican fondness for using socialism for fun and private profit.

What real benefit is there for the US, by engaging sovereign states in the Middle East? All the examples in history tell us a convincing story, that we would have been better off by simply doing business with them; and let them sort out their own problems. We could even call it exporting democracy, as a form of states' rights.

I am still of the opinion, that the UN is the most appropriate public sector to promote general Welfare, in all red states outside of the US.

I am not sure I can agree with your premise about Israel and the rest of the Middle East. Iraq was a stable dictatorship, with a relatively powerful military in that region. Israel did not seem to have any worse issues with a stable Iraq than it does now, with an unstable Iraq.

What is your opinion of a Middle East Union, that specifically includes Israel as a deliberative participant? I am pretty sure that the rest of the countries in the Middle East would benefit more from decent trade relations, than with their current hostilities toward a potential trading partner.