re: What would you have done post-Cold War to prevent endless Middle East intervention?

Ending the Cold War was ultimately a mistake. We needed the “evil Soviets” for two things:

1. They kept an iron fist on shite over there.
2. It’s painfully obvious that if the general population of Americans don’t have the evils of communism/socialism on display every night in their news, then they’ll gladly vote it in piece by piece and erode America from within.