Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's ne

[Tyler Durden]

"If we left them alone, we'd be in constant
fear of various types of terrorism funded by many governments in that region. We'd always be a hostage to OPEC."

These are probably the same arguments used by our state department, and I have to take exception with them. US involvement with the middle east goes back to before the Shah took power, and its been down hill ever since. And now, we have Troops in Saudi, sell arms to the Israelis (who are for the most part Europeans...how d'ya think that looks to people in the region?), supported Sadam, the Turkish government, and prop up the corrupt Saudi Royal family. It's been a disastrous, meddling foreign policy that creates huge regional instability, and that eventually cost my hometown 3000 lives on 9/11/01.

Unfortunately, terrorism is probably a predictable response by people who want to be able to control their own destinies, select their own leaders and forms of goivernment and so on. If we got the hell out of there, it would be tough going for a while, but eventually the motivation for terrorism would dissapate. And let us not forget that bin Laden (an expert terrorist) was a Mujahadeen fighter in Afghanistan. And guess who trained them in the arts of terror?



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