I see our entire involvement in the ME as a huge disaster. I wish we would just get out of that entire region. As long as we have a large military presence over there, the regimes will have someone to deflect the blame for the own failures at.
And I will give you the benefit of doubt in assuming you're too young and too uninformed to understand that dead American soldiers do not mean the United States is or has been at war in the Middle East -- because it hasn't. What it means is our troops have been misused by dishonest and/or incompetent Executive administrations.
yeah they'll still hate us, because our women wear skirts, we're primarily Christian, and we're a material consumerist society, to name a few reasons.
yeah they'll still hate us, because our women wear skirts, we're primarily Christian, and we're a material consumerist society, to name a few reasons.
but I think reducing our military presence in the long-term can reduce our chances of experiencing blow back.
just another reason to wean away from oil, too.
i don't want to get into the P/I issues, because i don't know enough about it.
Suddenly is the operative word in all this. I agree that a reduction in the chances of blow back won't happen at the snap of a finger if we draw down our ME military presence. In the long-term--generational--I think it will, though.yeah they'll still hate us, because our women wear skirts, we're primarily Christian, and we're a material consumerist society, to name a few reasons.
but I think reducing our military presence in the long-term can reduce our chances of experiencing blow back.
just another reason to wean away from oil, too.
i don't want to get into the P/I issues, because i don't know enough about it.
at this point i don't think anything reduces our chances of 'blow back'...perhaps not building an AFB in Saudi Arabia might have... but we did... and it's done. maybe not engaging in torture, and i'm glad to see that isn't a governmental policy anymore... and things like abu ghraib didn't help.
I always say alternative energy research is a security issue.
unfortunately, many on my side of the aisle think that if we tell israel to take a flying leap and throw her to the terrorist wolves that, somehow, people who target babies in carriages and children on schoolbuses will suddenly play nice.
poor nutbar.
i don't care about the 'source'... i care about how its misused.
so should you.
but you don't...
because you're a hack.
funny how that was "WMD we sold/gave" Saddam, but it WASNT WMD when we found them after OIF
From your link: "Congressional investigations after the Gulf War revealed that the Commerce Department had licensed sales of biological agents, including anthrax, and insecticides, which could be used in chemical weapons, to Iraq."
Now do some research and see just what was sold to whom in Iraq. There were no weapons sold. But base chemicals sold to Universities just like dozens of other places around the world who were doing research on cures etc........ But, no weapons.
Well of course, ignoring all intel from all sorts of allies and enemies. But never you mind that.
