I think it’s finally time to restore the Mandate of Palestine:

• Israelis get to live there but not their own special state
• Palestinians get to live there but not their own special state
• Everybody gets to hate the British, as is tradition
• Brits finally get a colony back, it’ll lift their mood after the brexit disaster

Unironically would be a better option if it was on the table.

That’s how bad this has gotten, guys. I’m pro-British Empire vis-a-vis the Middle East.

One-state solution time. Bring back the Roman Empire.

Can you imagine the Italians running everything? Sure there’d be plenty of good pasta and wine worldwide but I doubt we’d stay productive with three-hour wine lubricated lunch breaks every day

I say the USA needs to have a proper go at an empire. People could serve in the legion (navy) for citizenship and everything

I say the USA needs to have a proper go at an empire.

Please no. As Teddy Roosevelt once noted, we lack the interest in it. Let’s just not.

Hard to argue we don’t have the appetite after spending our first 150 years conquering territory roughly double the size of the Roman Empire at its peak

That was more ethnic cleansing than traditional imperialism. Not that I disagree that describing it as imperialism is valid, but it’s not what TR was talking about. The point was that Americans lack serious interest in foreign affairs or a desire for distant prestige projects. Our every overseas acquisition, temporary or permanent, has been marked by a noted uncertainty of what to actually do with any of it. Not that that makes any of the folk getting crushed happier, but it does reflect a lack of interest in the whole topic.