Our country showed the ME the natural resource it had under its feet, we invented drilling it and then refining it for THEM to sell it. All things considered every citizen of the ME should be living like kings. The US has not stolen oil. We buy it. THe west is not responsible for the chaos in the ME, the leaders of the ME are responsible for not taking care of its citizens, they blame the oppression of their people on the US, hence the hatred. In fact the leaders of those countries are to blame. They have made life so terrible, that the people view death as better than life. They then have convinced its citizens it is the US's fault.JahManRed wrote:
Yes I do. After you finish the mission in Afghanistan where the threat was. Pull out. How you finish that mission, I have no idea tbh.lowing wrote:
Do you think the US should?JahManRed wrote:
As lowing said. The fact they are now naming Obama as an enemy shows their fight is not with a a particular administration and their policies. But then again the US isn't going to close its hundreds or military bases around the world. Suspend clandestine operations or with draw from the middle east under any president.
Suppose the US abandons the ME and goes home, do ya think the world will be a safer place then?
Iraqi has only succeeded in creating a nation of terrorist from a nation of oppressed dictated citizens.
Iraqi seams to be stabilizing abit now, so the US must be doing something right atm. They can't just pull out en-mass. Its got to be fazed with the induction of better trained Iraqi force.
I agreed with the Afghan Mission. Am against the Iraqi mission. The USA shook the hornets nest in Iraqi and caused total break down of a functioning sociatity, be it a dictatorship or not (world is full of them). The US is responsible for the future of the Iraqi ppl.
To answer your question.
Pull out of Afghanistan=proliferation of the Taliban and re-establishment of a Terrorist harbouring nation, which is a threat to world peace.
Quick Pull out of Iraqi=Civil war. Thousands of deaths. Re-establishment of a dictator. Majority of Iraqi's will return to their lives now their country is no longer occupied. The country is destroyed. It can not pose any threat to the west apart from harbouring terrorists.
Typical of Westerners, we think of ourselves.
Colonial imperialism, WW1, WW2 & Holocaust, British mandate in Palestine, Regime change, Oil & gas pipelines, Cold war with Russia.
All these factors have helped insure the ME could be nothing but chaotic. All the above is intervention in the ME by the west. Our country men helped create this mess, yet all we ever talk and think about is "is the west safe?" I d like to hear more ppl stand up admit that the Arab ppl are not prim-evil savages but victims of circumstance and mans lust for power.
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