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To: DeathfromBelow
The Lib position is if we ignore it, it will just go away is one of the most stupid comments out there.

No, their position is that the unintended consequences make foreign intervention beget foreign intervention, and do not serve the interests of the average American. For example, was it worth it to you for the U.S. to spend billions and billions of dollars and lose thousands of American lives just to put the Kuwaiti King back on his throne? Is that what the U.S. military is for? I was under the impression they existed to defend us? Not to puts kings on thrones have a world away and stir up attacks against us.

Isolationism didn't work for the last idiot that held the presidential office and it won't work in the future.

Clinton was an isolationist? He didn't send U.S. troops to invade Haiti? He didn't send U.S. troops to invade Kosovo? He didn't bomb Iraq, Sudan, and Afghanistan? Good grief, memories can be short.

220 posted on 12/19/2003 8:14:06 AM PST by Gunslingr3
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To: Gunslingr3
For example, was it worth it to you for the U.S. to spend billions and billions of dollars and lose thousands of American lives just to put the Kuwaiti King back on his throne?

If Saddam was allowed to annex Kuwait, he could have eventually commanded a huge portion of the world's oil reserves. That would have been very bad for everybody, including us. Containing him was worthwhile from geopolitical view. Defeating him utterly would have been better.

221 posted on 12/19/2003 8:17:41 AM PST by NutCrackerBoy
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To: Gunslingr3
You make the ass-u-me tion that I was speaking about Clintoon, Read your history or you are bound to repeat it.

222 posted on 12/19/2003 8:17:57 AM PST by DeathfromBelow
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To: Gunslingr3
Clinton was an isolationist? He didn't send U.S. troops to invade Haiti? He didn't send U.S. troops to invade Kosovo? He didn't bomb Iraq, Sudan, and Afghanistan? Good grief, memories can be short.

You must understand, some FReepers have a simplistic/dualistic worldview. If they like apples, they'll insist Clinton burned apples orchards while Bush is a friend to apple farmers worldwide. IOW, they project their hatreds onto Clinton, and their loves onto Bush, never mind the facts. The DUers are the same.

Good thing I'm a libertarian, :-)

263 posted on 12/19/2003 11:45:12 PM PST by Commie Basher
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