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To: WTFOVR

So what are you going to do? Declare war on all of Islam or invade Saudi Arabia?

We have never been in a war because of a “New World Order aspiration.” That’s simply an unproven conspiracy theory.

The Bush regime thought bringing democracy to Arab countries would solve some of the terrorism problem. The spread of democracy is something that absolutely made Europe and Asia less warmongering in the last 75 years. Iraq would’ve needed us to be there, handholding for a longer time to try the experiment. Us having a solid military foothold in the Middle East in Iraq would’ve also given us big leverage in influencing the Sauds and others to change their ways. Bush left Iraq in peace. Obama threw it all away by pulling out of Iraq. Obama created ISIS.


3,059 posted on 02/14/2016 12:34:04 AM PST by JediJones (RUSH LIMBAUGH on TED CRUZ: "This is the closest in our lifetimes we have ever been to Ronald Reagan")
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To: JediJones

Arabs are not Europeans.


3,060 posted on 02/14/2016 12:34:42 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: JediJones

There is your problem ... You think our democratic values are applicable to the rest of the world - they are not.

You make the mistake of presuming upon other cultures that western philosophy and theology will appeal to them. trouble is that the entirety of the world is not western culture, has not western history, nor is predisposed to western thought. This is why nation-building almost always fails.

A country or culture that is based in a theological mindset wholly adversarial to human life and individual liberty is not going to suddenly adopt western ideas. To believe otherwise demonstrates a naivete that is deadly.


3,083 posted on 02/14/2016 2:00:20 AM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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