To: churchillbuff
Sorry, but the idea that our troops should be deployed only in defense of our own interests is not a strawman, it is a basic, historic tenet of American conservatism.
And we have interests in the Middle East. Main one being oil. Another main one to try and nullify Islamic terrorism which is on the verge of going world wide. End of story.
You must be one of those silly people who think we can simply buy oil from the Arab Muslims without being politically involved. No other nation acts this way. Not the French, not the Chinese, not the Russians.
753 posted on
06/30/2004 3:42:46 PM PDT by
dennisw
(http://www.prophetofdoom.net/)
To: dennisw
He's definitely one of those silly antiwar twits who think
there can only be ONE reason for a given military operation.
756 posted on
06/30/2004 3:43:59 PM PDT by
Petronski
(Fairness is fiction.)
To: dennisw
And we have interests in the Middle East. At the least, in Iraq, we had an interest in keeping our word of consequences for defying a Ceasefire. Not standing up for it has been disasterous...Kobar, Cole, WTC II...
866 posted on
06/30/2004 9:04:50 PM PDT by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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