ISIL or whatever the hell they’re called now have the rape rooms too and maybe worse. The MIddle East: good people there I’m sure but always controlled by ANIMALS. Let’s get the hell out of there.
You’re right, but at some point, the Hussein dynasty would have had to be removed. Saddam was starving his people and I don’t think he would have been able to keep a lid on things forever.
"We need energy independence to rid ourselves from dealing with that god-forsaken region."
It is enough to make you take a second look @ Rand Paul.
To much slop on K-Street, for this sadly. Don't think they are "nudging" us in the direction they want as well. Did ya see one of the Major Airlines will not fly to Israel anymore, hmmm. Talk to some airline pilots on the down-lo about that one and hear what they really think.
On the energy....
We have so many things at our disposal to make us independent or exporters of energy that it would even kick Putin in the privates as he tries to get all the pipelines he wants and to bring back the Russian Bears hegemony.
A freeper last week brought up Zapping Garbage with a Plasma to break it down and get it's energy and clean it up, their is Fracking, and where is our R & D Program to go with a LFTR Liquid Florine Thorium Reactors?
We don't have any of the above, and frankly I think Cruz and Trump wouldn't make the Garbage zapper and LFTR a national R & D priority. The whole flippin country is still enamored with the socialist alterative construct which is a falsehood and is in itself industrial Marxism the false profit of wind and solar...