Mindful
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- #341
The US has been meddling in the Middle East since long before you were born, and our motives have nothing in common with ignorant masses here or there.Are you stupid? This is how ALL the problems start, by us getting involved in that which is not our business because the ignorant masses BEG for our assistance. Yes, I do think we are going to begin to wash our hands of that region eventually.
"The Red Line agreement governed the development of Middle East oil for the next two decades.
"The Anglo-American Petroleum Agreement of 1944 was based on negotiations between the United States and Britain over the control of Middle Eastern oil.
"Below is shown what the American President Franklin D. Roosevelt had in mind for to a British Ambassador in 1944:
"'Persian oil ... is yours. We share the oil of Iraq and Kuwait. As for Saudi Arabian oil, it's ours.[7]'
"On August 8, 1944, the Anglo-American Petroleum Agreement was signed, dividing Middle Eastern oil between the United States and Britain."
United States foreign policy in the Middle East - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Didn't the Anglo-Americans put all the research and development, and the costs, into those projects?