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Originally Posted by sgtdmski  Yes, lets bring our troops home now. Let us withdraw from Iraq, Afghanistan, and everywhere else in the world. Let the terrorists see that all they have to do to win is pick away and pick away, and then once we leave, they can enact their reform wholescale, requiring women to cover their faces and not talk unless given permission, not allowing young girls to go to school, and eliminating all homosexuals through beheading as required by religious law. | Oh wait...so you mean like what Saudi Arabia is doing??? 
The fact of the matter is that Saudi Arabia has perhaps the worst human rights record in the Middle East. But they're not our enemies because they give us oil and pander toward neo-liberal corporatism. I mean, Saddam's Iraq was a paradise in comparison. It's not about destroying tyranny at all, it's about sacking anyone who stands up to American dominance in the world, and its about securing control of oil to undermine OPEC. "If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, then have faith; if you want to be a disciple of truth, then search" -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Economic Left/Right: -9.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.72 |