On: Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon...

[afavour]

> As middle eastern societies proof unable to create complex institutions and states

Pretty sure history proves that to be vastly incorrect. And the modern state of Middle Eastern countries is inseparable from the actions outside (both western and not) powers have undertaken there.

[InDubioProRubio → afavour]

It was like that before the west came in. The marines were formed because it was like that.