Abrupt US Withdrawal "Utterly Disastrous"

Amen to that. American lives and interests come first. I really dont care if those people ever see democracy. Only if it is in the best interests of the United States.

 

Sixty years of occupying Iraq? And how would you propose that we pay for that?

Occupying sovereign nations for our own political interests would be a repudiation of everything America was founded on and stands for.

 

Jack Matthews: //Occupying sovereign nations for our own
political interests would be a repudiation of everything
America was founded on and stands for//

Where were you in the summer of 2006 when we celebrated the
50th year of the occupation of Germany?
Where were you in August of 2006 when we celebrated the
fiftieth year of the occupation of Japan?
VICTORY is celebrating the 60th year of the occupation.

Jack Matthews: //Sixty years of occupying Iraq?
And how would you propose that we pay for that?//

'Crop sharing' on the oil?

 

Steal the oil! Isn't that how the war & reconstruction were supposed to pay for themselves and all the "loans" we're giving them?

As Pat Paulsen used to say, "Picky, picky picky."

 

You can use this argument for the US to do anything and in fact that was the Neo-Cons perspective. American supremacy in the world no matter what it takes. Thank goodness the recent election will most likely derail their goal of world domination.

 

StraighAndNarrow: //Thank goodness the recent election will most likely derail their goal of world domination.//

I agree, but state it as:
The recent election will most likely derail our goal of world domination.

The opposite of world domination is world damnation.

 

I wasn't aware that not occupying nations for our own political interests was everything that America was founded on and stands for.

 

Yeah , that would be correct if we were a nation of Paranoid Fanatics.

 

That changed after the mid-term elections when the American voters put back Checks and Balances. Ruling a country by use of fear only works for so long, Hitler paid a big price for his failed stratagy.:smilewinkgrin: