Posted on 10/22/2001 4:16:47 PM PDT by Justin Raimondo
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I also agreed largely with your "Retaliation Yes- Occupation No" column. Let's face some facts. First let me say this- US policy in the Mideast does not even come close to justifying the events of 9/11. But when you stick your nose in among a bunch of twisted snakes that is largely the Islamic world you are gonna get bit.
Time to develop our own oil resources- invest in clean coal technology- and for god sake build Nuke plants. Hey- I sympathize with Isreal- it is used by these Islamic countries and states to divert attention away from their own miserable corruption and harsh rule. And despite what is said- Isreal treats it's Arab citizens better than any Arab or Islamic country in the world treats it's own- with the exception of possibly Turkey. But America must realize that we are dealing with fanatics- wholly unreasonable fanatics. Is it worth it for us to be so involved in a part of the world that is so insane?
Death to Osama and his coharts- but please no troops in Afghanistan for the next 50 years.
Now, that's an understatement. More Girlie-boys.
The point of being "antiwar" is really a commitment to a non-interventionist foreign policy: one that sees America as a Republic, not an Empire. Every "great leap forward" of Big Government has been the direct result of a war, and you'll notice that once passed, "emergency" measures that "temporarily" infringe on civil and economic liberties somehow become permanent. This is really the core of the case that Old Right conservatives and many libertarians are making in the case of the Halloween War: let's not let Osama bin Laden poison our political culture and kill off the Constitution.
Very dumb, ostrich like thinking. A one size fits all approach. You are on the same side as Saddam and Bin Laden who both want us out of the Mid East. Of course if we abandon the Mid East then China moves in. Saddam takes Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. He controls world oil along with China as his military protector. Not that you care. You'll only squeal after these geopolitical forces hammer down the United States over a period of years and the USA becomes a beggar nation.
commitment to a non-interventionist foreign policy:
In the real world this is nonsense. We are the 3rd most populous nation. We have economic and military power. And we will engage abroad to suit our national interests.
I don't want to see troops in Khandahar or Kabul for 50 years. Do you? Why are troops still in Saudi Arabia? To protect a corrupt regime that won't pay for their own defense against Sadam? Why were we in the Gulf War to begin with? To protect the same pathetic regime? Some of whose members almost certainly knew of the 9/11 attack?
I still go back to what Pat Buchanan said (and I am no Brigadeer member)- "What- we can't buy oil from Sadam?" And he was right. The Gulf War was not about stopping "agression." If that were so why did we sponser Sadam's war against Iran for 8 years? We backed him. He attacked Iran without warning or cause at our behest. We sided with Kuwait largely becasue we have a huge foreign policy establishment that is dedicated to keeping alliances that have long out lived their usefulnes alive. Suadi Arabia is no "ally".
The US is a nation not used to the Byzantine world of these freaks and their lies. And yet we are wrapped up in them largely because people in Washington need jobs and something to do. Saudi Arabia is just as evil and every bit as corrupt as Iraq and yet we have sanctions against Iraq and we call Saudi Arabia a friend. Horse crap.
Bollocks. Are you saying that the men of Easy Company now being profiled on HBO were not real soldiers? They were pro-war before Normandy and they were even more pro-war after they liberated a concentration camp. Some wars must be fought, and since you hide behind intellectual lies to claim war is wrong, others will fight and die to defend you.
Some wars are wrong, some are right. When you've grown up, maybe you'll understand.
As to China moving in- how so? They are not even as cash rich as these oil nations. Plus they don't have the power to project their forces. And further if they did- would they not inherite such a 9/11 attack from these freaks?
The Business of America is Business! Not getting into the geo politics of ignorant superstitous naitons like we have done. We supported Sadam in his "war of aggression" against Iran for 10 years- where was the US to stop that? ANd now our "ally" in Saudi Arabia won't even run traces on the freaks from their country who plowed 767's into our towers and the pentagon. Some foreign policy we have going. Time to sit back and look at what we are doing. We give 2 billion a year to Eygpt and they spit in our faces. And we take it.
The rest, includes the American response to Pearl Harbor.
Imagine. There are people who take you seriously enough to debate your views.
I won't tell. Do you laugh that those simple minded imbeciles?
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