To: presidio9
I might have been able to repect his view in respect to the troops in Iraq, I.E. get then out as soon as possible(assuming we have the situation stable over there), but in the same breath he wants to pull out all our troops around the world.
To say nothing of saying that Iran wasn’t a problem and we should just let them be. This guy is a loon of the highest order.
31 posted on
09/12/2007 7:40:41 AM PDT by
Post-Neolithic
(Money only makes Communists rich Communists)
To: Post-Neolithic
I might have been able to repect his view in respect to the troops in Iraq, I.E. get then out as soon as possible(assuming we have the situation stable over there), but in the same breath he wants to pull out all our troops around the world.
Aren't there at least a few of those 700 bases that could be closed with the collapse of Western civilization? How about even one?
Personally, I'd close some of the other bases outside Iraq first. Iraq's neighbors are greedy for land and population and oil. We probably have to defend them from Turkey at the very least. And unlike Arabs, the Turks have a real army.
To: Post-Neolithic
I might have been able to repect his view in respect to the troops in Iraq, I.E. get then out as soon as possible(assuming we have the situation stable over there), but in the same breath he wants to pull out all our troops around the world. To say nothing of saying that Iran wasn’t a problem and we should just let them be. This guy is a loon of the highest order.
I agree on the stability issue and am holding for more information. RP is dumb like a fox, making people howl with outrage at his sound bites while others take a deeper look to see what the fuss is about.
He never said Iran wasn't a problem. He has said that historically the US should not have worked with England to depose Mossadeq. I agree with him on this point. In the present day, he feels that there's a good enough balance of power in the ME to contain Iran. I think this is credible, too, especially if we leave Iraq in good shape.
To: Post-Neolithic
WHERE does the Constitution provide for keeping an army of occupation in over 130 countries around the world?
106 posted on
09/12/2007 9:16:02 AM PDT by
dcwusmc
(We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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