<I didn't ask if it was part of the Neocon agenda. Is it part of your agenda.>
Yes. I think we should have made it a condition for sending our army to the Middle East in 1991, that when we threw the Iraqis out of Kuwait, we turn the country over to a government of the people (whoever they chose, in a free election), rather than replacing one unelected despot (Saddam Hussain) with another unelected despot (the Emir of Kuwait). Sure, Hussain is nastier than the Emir. But neither is worth sending Americans to die for.
And if the Saudis weren't willing to let us in, under those conditions, then let them defend themselves. You see, I do believe in the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. And I believe in spreading those ideals. To whoever wants them. Not Emirs and Shahs and Kings.
Of course, if we were capable of long-term planning, our nation would have funded R&D since the early 1970s for Energy Independence, and nobody would need any ME oil, so Saddam wouldn't have invaded Kuwait, and sending an American army to Kuwait would have been as absurd as sending a U.S. army to Rwanda. |
