mcHAPPY wrote:
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Guh? Um, who exactly had a strategy of non-intervention and diplomacy in the Middle East until 1985? The US and the Soviets have been playing around in there since WWII. The British and other European powers colonized most of it after the end of the Ottomans after WWI. Prior to that, the Ottomans warred with the Europeans for about 500 years up to WWI. So, unless the Middle East now includes North and Western Africa, Greece, Italy, the Indian sub-continent, Eastern and Central Europe, Spain and Portugal and the Caribbean, then, no, the problems haven't been contained "to the region" until the last 30 years.
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