[MNJohnnie]

Buchannan is an infantile moron who has utterly NO grip on current reality. Guess this senile old Dincon is just ignoring the hundred of Americans military personal the Iranians have murdered over the years. Guess he figures if he doesn’t see it, he can kid himself that they are not all ready at war with us.

The bulk of the world’s oil comes from that part of the world. The USA is dependent on the free flow of oil out of the ME. It can not allow any national to dominate that region.

Iran is building up it military forces and seeking nukes so that it can dominate that region. Once it gets nukes can simply bully their neighbor oil rich region into following it’s lead on oil policy. If we followed Pat’s infantile Isolationist dogms, the USA be seen by the local powers as an unreliable ally would could be counted on to run away the minute the Iranians rattled their sabers.

Following the “Let’s hide under the bed and hope the bad men go away” dogma of the Neo-Isolationist Buchannittes would make war with Iran MORE likely at a later date at a much great cost to the USA

[ketsu]

The bulk of the world’s oil comes from that part of the world. The USA is dependent on the free flow of oil out of the ME. It can not allow any national to dominate that region.

Almost but not quite. The US doesn't need ME oil. The EU and Chinese do. Controlling the ME is all about controlling potential economic and military threats from other industrialized nations.

PNAC and the rest of the Bushies are quite clear about this behind closed doors. Read their Clinton era policy papers before they could hitch their wagon to the war on terror.