They left just far and long enough to recoup and try again.... in 1812.
Look, nothing is ever CLEAR CUT when people are involved......
What you witness AROUND the GLOBE is not the work of the U.S. ... it is the fallout of the ending of the British Empire. Pick a hot spot, just about ANY of today's hot spot and you will have the fingerprints of the British Empire and colonialism all over it....... history doesn't go away.......it ripples to and fro.
Is there a simple way to solve the israel issue..... sure there is. Have the Arab nations grow a pair and recognize the obvious. Israel is there and it's better to live in peace than not.
By the way, have you ever seen pictures of Israel before 1950? Compare them to today and be amazed. those people have accomplished a heck of a lot under great adversity and hatred. That is one of the underlying jealousies on the part of the Arabs..... Israel is the shining star of that region.
Will Israel defeat Hamas? Nope.....
And so it continues....the Palestinians are being torn asunder by their neighbors.... not Israel.
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