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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: HG who wrote (4029)10/10/2001 1:02:44 PM
From: Selectric II  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The implication from your post and some others here is that the U.S.'s self-interests in taking those actions were against everyone else's. I reject that.

Sure, we do things in our own self-interest. But a critical distinction is that if we were as self-focused as some unnamed individuals here might suggest, we would have simply occupied Kuwait ourselves and taken it over as a 51st state. We didn't. If the USA was the evil colonial power we're accused of being, while we were at it we probably could have occupied much of the rest of the Middle East in a matter of days, if not hours, too. Saudi as the 52nd state, Iraq 53rd, the Emirates, etc., too. We could have, militarily, and had the opportunity. Didn't. If we're so evil and opportunistic, why not?
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