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What are we doing in the Middle East?
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:07 am
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:07 am
Why do we have troops in harm's way? Why are we bombing targets in multiple countries? What a sickening and reckless waste of resources.
This post was edited on 2/3/24 at 9:08 am
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:11 am to armtackledawg
1) Radicalizing Muslims
2) Fomenting conflicts
3) Making defense contractors billions
2) Fomenting conflicts
3) Making defense contractors billions
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:13 am to armtackledawg
1. Lots of oil
2. Where else do you expect our military industry to make money?
But in all reality, there are a lot of people in that part of the world that are would like nothing more than to pull off something devastating on the US. If we left them totally alone, I’m pretty sure another devastating attack would occur on US soil very soon.
2. Where else do you expect our military industry to make money?
But in all reality, there are a lot of people in that part of the world that are would like nothing more than to pull off something devastating on the US. If we left them totally alone, I’m pretty sure another devastating attack would occur on US soil very soon.
This post was edited on 2/3/24 at 9:18 am
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:14 am to armtackledawg
Well, in Syria, we are probably stealing oil for Israel. They don't want us and we are FAFO having troops there. I believe at least Jordan allows us there.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:14 am to armtackledawg
Protecting the vital security interests of the United $tate$ of America.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:18 am to Deuces
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If we left them totally alone, I’m pretty sure another devastating attack would occur on US soil.
It’s because they hate our freedom, right?
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:20 am to SCLibertarian
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1) Radicalizing Muslims
2) Fomenting conflicts
3) Making defense contractors billions
4.) Securing the hegemony of the greenback as the world’s reserve currency.
Flashback to 2000: the real threat posed by Saddam Hussein was not WMDs.
This post was edited on 2/3/24 at 9:34 am
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:21 am to armtackledawg
The US can’t exist without permanent imperialism and war. They prop up our entire economy.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:26 am to Damone
I just don't get what we get out of having reservists in Jordan to get killed by people who hate us and then have that provoke us into making more people that hate us. You are probably right- that's the whole point
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:26 am to Deuces
Those guys in the Middle East must like money. Because, everyone else that has oil is glad to exchange it for money.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:31 am to Deuces
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1. Lots of oil
2. Where else do you expect our military industry to make money?
You are correct on both points.
However it should be noted that the supply of oil is not the main reason we are perpetually invested in these ancient sectarian conflicts in the Middle East. No, we have enough energy reserves in this hemisphere to supply our nation’s energy needs.
“War For Oil” has thus always been a misnomer; “War For Greenbacks” is a more correct appellation. The primary reason our nation is embroiled in these never-ending conflicts is to promote the continued hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
This is one of the primary reasons the United States has been locked in a permanent state of war in the Middle East since at least the end of the Cold War. The Petrodollar Pact with the incestuous House of Saud — while a brilliant piece of statecraft in it’s day — has proven to be a disaster for the stability of the USD and indeed our nation’s national security.
Nothing — NOTHING — changes until this nation returns to sound monetary policies.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:38 am to armtackledawg
The military is in the Middle East to protect global business interests in the region.
The secondary beneficiaries are the defense contractors.
It would help if you also viewed the military as an employment agency for low-skilled workers, much like any other bloated fed gov scheme. It puts money in pockets, and the world keeps turning until the charade collapses.
The secondary beneficiaries are the defense contractors.
It would help if you also viewed the military as an employment agency for low-skilled workers, much like any other bloated fed gov scheme. It puts money in pockets, and the world keeps turning until the charade collapses.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:41 am to Deuces
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there are a lot of people in that part of the world that are would like nothing more than to pull off something devastating on the US. If we left them totally alone, I’m pretty sure another devastating attack would occur on US soil very soon.
And therefore the stupidity of our foreign policy is justified. This is the kind of shite McCain and Haley say.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:47 am to Toomer Deplorable
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Nothing — NOTHING — changes until this nation returns to sound monetary policies.
Agreed. Policies bringing in 12M illegal aliens, funding trans studies in Pakistan, and sending literal pallets of cash to Iran are the policies that encourage me the most.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 10:00 am to Jrv2damac
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And therefore the stupidity of our foreign policy is justified.
It gets so wearisome hearing the very same talking points we were hearing twenty years ago while defending the repeated failures of our nation’s standing bipartisan foreign policy directives over multiple Democon & Republicrat administrations.
At this late stage, only complete fools or unapologetic Deep State tools would continue to parrot these same trite reasons for our continued involvement in the entire region.
Again, the biggest threat to continued Liberty in this nation arises not from the regimes in Tehran, Moscow or Beijing but from the permanent bipartisan reigning despots in Washington D.C.
This post was edited on 2/3/24 at 10:16 am
Posted on 2/3/24 at 10:02 am to SCLibertarian
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3) Making defense contractors billions
Should be number 1
Posted on 2/3/24 at 10:03 am to armtackledawg
One important mission is to ID and eliminate terror groups that would plan 911 style attacks.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 10:12 am to jrodLSUke
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One important mission is to ID and eliminate terror groups that would plan 911 style attacks.
You sure about that?
Do we need reminding that the vast majority of 911 attackers were Saudi nationals?
Robert Mueller was the biggest obstacle for Sept. 11 families who wanted to sue Saudi Arabia….
Families of Sept. 11 victims have been on a 17-year-long quest to seek financial retribution from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which they claim funded the terrorist attack that took the lives of their loved ones. Throughout the process, their attempts at uncovering the truth about Saudi Arabia’s role in the deadliest terrorist attack in American history have been impeded by the FBI and its former director, Robert Mueller….
New York-based lawyer Jim Kreindler, representing the families of the Sept. 11 victims, said in an interview that Mueller and his successor, James Comey, engaged in a systematic cover-up of evidence that the Saudi government aided the terrorists who committed the Sept. 11 attacks.
Several people formerly associated with the investigation stated that Saudi Arabia was financially involved with the Sept. 11 attacks, including John Lehman, a Republican member of the 9/11 Commission, and former Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., who chaired the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence at the time. Stephen K. Moore, the retired FBI agent who led the Sept. 11 probe in Los Angeles, also confirmed in an affidavit back in December 2017 that the Saudis played a significant role….
Posted on 2/3/24 at 10:14 am to armtackledawg
Making more life long enemies to feed the military industrial complex.
What a reversal of conscience over the last 50 years where it’s now the conservatives who fight the war drums
What a reversal of conscience over the last 50 years where it’s now the conservatives who fight the war drums
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