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What are we doing in the Middle East?

Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:07 am
Posted by armtackledawg
Member since Aug 2017
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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 by SCLibertarian
Conway, South Carolina
Member since Aug 2013
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Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:11 am to
1) Radicalizing Muslims
2) Fomenting conflicts
3) Making defense contractors billions
Posted by Deuces
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Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:13 am to
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.
This post was edited on 2/3/24 at 9:18 am
Posted by Bunk Moreland
Member since Dec 2010
66986 posts
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:14 am to
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 by Toomer Deplorable
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Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:14 am to
Protecting the vital security interests of the United $tate$ of America.



Posted by Mo Jeaux
Member since Aug 2008
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Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:18 am to
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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 by Toomer Deplorable
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Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:20 am to
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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 by Damone
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Member since Aug 2016
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Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:21 am to
The US can’t exist without permanent imperialism and war. They prop up our entire economy.
Posted by armtackledawg
Member since Aug 2017
14338 posts
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:26 am to
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 by jawnybnsc
Greer, SC
Member since Dec 2016
5917 posts
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:26 am to
Those guys in the Middle East must like money. Because, everyone else that has oil is glad to exchange it for money.
Posted by Toomer Deplorable
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Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:31 am to
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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 by skullhawk
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Member since Nov 2007
27206 posts
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:38 am to
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.
Posted by Jrv2damac
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Member since Mar 2004
72426 posts
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:41 am to
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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 by NPComb
Member since Jan 2019
28096 posts
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:47 am to
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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 by Toomer Deplorable
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Member since May 2020
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Posted on 2/3/24 at 10:00 am to
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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 by TrueTiger
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Member since Sep 2004
80405 posts
Posted on 2/3/24 at 10:02 am to
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3) Making defense contractors billions




Should be number 1
Posted by jrodLSUke
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Member since Jan 2011
25780 posts
Posted on 2/3/24 at 10:03 am to
One important mission is to ID and eliminate terror groups that would plan 911 style attacks.
Posted by Aubie Spr96
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Member since Dec 2009
44038 posts
Posted on 2/3/24 at 10:10 am to
This guy gets it.
Posted by Toomer Deplorable
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Member since May 2020
23839 posts
Posted on 2/3/24 at 10:12 am to
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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 by TROLA
BATON ROUGE
Member since Apr 2004
14447 posts
Posted on 2/3/24 at 10:14 am to
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
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