Posted on 09/13/2001 2:24:38 PM PDT by danielmryan
It was never ours to begin with. We made our profit off that oil and continue to do so. It aint ours.
Do you even know what the word appeasement means? Your use of the word suggests you have no idea.
Huh? I support what was done. The CIA did a great job. They put the weapons in the hands of the shooters, the nutcases. That was exactly what we should have done. Too bad those nuts are now our enemy. But at least they don't have boomer subs off both our coasts.
We eliminated the Soviet Empire. We can deal with these pretenders to power.
Or would you prefer the Soviets still be in Afghanistan, perhaps have moved into Pakistan and the Berlin Wall still be standing?
Not me..and not the 400 million who are free today because of what Reagan, Thatcher, the Pope and millions of others did.
Hope you and yours are safe and well. I agree that the portion of the essay you posted looks very like common sense.
But this part is sheer silliness: Fifty years ago, Truman and Eisenhower ceded to the Arabs the West's property rights in oilalthough that oil properly belonged to those in the West whose science and technology made its discovery and use possible.
By this reasoning the person who discovered the moon shares property rights to it with the folks who developed the technology that got Apollo 11 up there.
Actually most of the first three-quarters of the essay rest on dubious foundations.
Kindest Regards
Let me chime in, briefly, with regard to us 'switching sides' with regard to Afghanistan:
One of the main reasons why the Roman Empire collapsed was that they let barabarians do their fighting for them, to the point where the Romans flat-out depended on them.
Try placing this in the context of what's happened this week - including 9/11.
This however is about what I have come to expect from the Ayn Rand Institute.
First: what could Ronald Reagan have done when the Soviets attacked Afganistan. letting the Afgans hang out to dry would have been cost effective but would it have been prudant or wise? of course not.
Second: Yes I support taking out terrorists. I also support shutting down countries that have no democratic values and putting them under new management. However if the West steals these countries' oil again and stations troops to gaurd what has been stolen than the west is unworthy of my support
Pardon me while I puke.
Incidentally, ad hominen attacks are always the last refuge of the intellectually banktrupt (kinda like liberals)
Ad hominem endorsements of morally bankrupt pseudo-philosophers such as Ayn Rand are no better.
Who cares anymore if it's "stealing", they are using that oil to kill as many of us as they can. Let the oil go to pay for the 11,000 body bags ordered for our New York citizens. The Islamic people have made their decision, now it's time for paybacks.
Very good idea.
You libertarian-bashers just cannot accept the fact that 60 years of meddling in the affairs of other soverign nations is the main contributing factor in US becoming targets. And another thing that you guys cannot accept is that the only difference between what those arab bastards did to us and what we did to Yugoslavia is that the arabs had the balls to die for their cause.
Get used to these kind of things happening in the future, because if the supposedly freedom-loving members of FR can't accept the need to re-think our intreventionallist foreign policy, there is no chance that it will change enough to get us out of the bullseye.
I do. If we can rationalize it abroad, we can rationalize it at home. Forsake your morals and perish.
As reparations. What do you think those skyscrapers are worth in dollars?
Once the debt is paid, then whatever nation it is we're talking about, should get back control over their property.
And frankly this doesn't look like the work of a Nation but of a small group.
Punishing the entire nation including the innocent civilians is not justice.
BUMP
I wasn't assuming it was only Afghanistan that was the problem. I've seen speculation on threads here today... if we do invade, that we should remove all the Saddams, all the militant muslims from the heads of countries.. And when we withdraw (like Japan/Germany) arrange it so the new governments are democracies and look on us favorably.
What if we do find out Iraq directed or financed this..?
We can easily land there.
Everybody's a critic.
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