vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Too much guff to deal with. ...
You think the carve-up of the Ottoman Empire and the betrayal of the Arabs back then guff?
Nearly all the 11/9ers were Saudi Arabian. ...
So what? The Saudis would have handed him over but he was in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan wouldn't have anything to do with poppies would it?
Doubt it, if you're going that route then look at the proposed oil-pipeline.
Al Quaeda was trained by the US.
No they weren't they were funded in part by them, they were trained by the Pakistanis and also equally funded by the Saudi's and other Sunni states.
So much hypocrisy to practise, so little time. ...
Not quite hypocrisy as at the time they thought the Soviets the enemy and the Mujahideen freedom fighters. So you would have left the Russians to it would you? I would but just wondering what you would do.
Who made the US the moral standard-bearer of the planet?
Like you I doubt it's about this but how did the US end up in this position? It pretty much started in WWII. Personally if there are going to be empires I prefer the ones that pay at least some service to the ideal of democracy.
I don't see the US being over-run with 'commies'.
The Cold War was a proxy one.
Communism was always doomed to fail and died a natural death.
Was it? What if there'd been no American forces to oppose them at the end of the second world war, you think Stalin would have been satisfied with just staying in Germany?
Are you suggesting the US destroyed Iraq to 'save' it from Hussein? You can't possibly be that naive. Bush has more blood on his hands, but apparently he's a 'goody'.
Not saying that. Just wondering what
Tell the Iraqis they were being 'defended' by vicious British and American mercenaries.
Tell the Kurds et al that they weren't. Tell the Bosnian Muslims.
What I want to know is how you think the world will play out if you get your wish and America withdraws to its pre-WWII stance?
