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re: All of these factors are interdependent. How are we going to separate our economic needs from the geopolitical mess if our oil money is feeding the sheiks at the expense of the average Arab? How are going to block any cultural influences when capitalism is seen not as an economic system, but as the tool of the Great Satan? If military influence is a no-no, then why were you supportive of the first Gulf War, assuming you were?
As I said, I was talking hypothetically. but to argue a few points:
re: How are going to block any cultural influences when capitalism is seen not as an economic system, but as the tool of the Great Satan?
Capitalism isn't seen as the "Great Satan", the US is (by minority factions) because of their interference in Muslim affairs. If there were troops from a Muslim country camped on your Christian Holy ground, how would you feel? If we had troops from Saudi Arabia with a base in Washington DC, how would you feel? Maybe you would be OK with that if they were the world's superior military power, controlling out natural resources, but I bet there would be a few radical political Americans that might object, even violently. Yes?
re: If military influence is a no-no, then why were you supportive of the first Gulf War, assuming you were?
I was. We had a deal. We kept it. But again, this is rhetorical.
re: The only way to be consistent in this philosophy is to adopt the Pat Buchanan isolationist doctrine.
Yes. Sounds not all bad at this point.
John |
