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After 9-11 we faced a harsh reality; we had to face Islam, or at least the public face of it as a menace and grim enemy. I'm sorry if this seems upsetting to you, but think about it; 19 whacked out dudes took out the Trade Center, imagine what a few hundred million could do if united. We also had to face the reality that making a parking lot or field of glass out of the area was not realistic. So we turned them against one another.
One of the most profound aspects to me about the whole Middle East war is that, despite all we have done to them, the Sunnis still hate the Shiites more than they hate us. We are using that against them, and while they busy about the business of sectarian killings we will reap the profits from their oil fields.
Pretty fucked up, isn't it?
I don't advocate this, I just see it.
Isn't this a legit strategy?
Direct from the Whitehouse
American Policy In The Middle East Comes Down To A Straightforward Choice. We can allow the Middle East to continue on the course it was headed before 9/11 – and a generation from now, our children will face a region dominated by terrorist states and radical dictators armed with nuclear weapons. Or we can rally the world to confront the ideology of hate and give the people of the Middle East a future of hope. That is the choice America has made.
When terror becomes error.
One aspect of the law of unintended consequences.
Unintended consequences....pffft. I think not.

Please note that I am libertarian minded and support isolationism. I'm just trying to explain one larger rational, beyond the WMD's, for why we went to Iraq

I dunno about that last line but as for the notion that we are destabilizing the Middle East I say, duh.“There’s no Israeli interest being served by continued American presence in Iraq,” said Mark A. Heller, a Jaffee Center researcher who helped produce the group’s annual “Middle East Strategic Balance” report.
The Bush administration is “simply discredited in the region as a player,” Yossi Alpher said.
After 9-11 we faced a harsh reality; we had to face Islam, or at least the public face of it as a menace and grim enemy. I'm sorry if this seems upsetting to you, but think about it; 19 whacked out dudes took out the Trade Center, imagine what a few hundred million could do if united. We also had to face the reality that making a parking lot or field of glass out of the area was not realistic. So we turned them against one another.
One of the most profound aspects to me about the whole Middle East war is that, despite all we have done to them, the Sunnis still hate the Shiites more than they hate us. We are using that against them, and while they busy about the business of sectarian killings we will reap the profits from their oil fields.
Pretty fucked up, isn't it?
I don't advocate this, I just see it.
Isn't this a legit strategy?
Direct from the Whitehouse
American Policy In The Middle East Comes Down To A Straightforward Choice. We can allow the Middle East to continue on the course it was headed before 9/11 – and a generation from now, our children will face a region dominated by terrorist states and radical dictators armed with nuclear weapons. Or we can rally the world to confront the ideology of hate and give the people of the Middle East a future of hope. That is the choice America has made.
When terror becomes error.
One aspect of the law of unintended consequences.
Unintended consequences....pffft. I think not.

Please note that I am libertarian minded and support isolationism. I'm just trying to explain one larger rational, beyond the WMD's, for why we went to Iraq