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Re: Is the Middle East better off since the day before Operation Iraqi Freedom be...
Stop with the comparisons to the fall of the USSR. It's apples and oranges.
And if you think radical Islam was more powerful in the 70's you are NOT a student of history.
Ummmm. What? I'm lost, I have no idea where you are going with this. And after you I read that you believe we get no oil from the M.E. I've lost interest. We get almost 12-15% of our oil from Saudi Arabia alone.
How much history do you read? Compare what our current involvement will be to Cold War years. It won't be the same at all. Limited action. And we don't get oil from the Middle East. Europe does.
A huge vacuum that is being filled by people stronger than Isis. They are losing ground to Iraqis. Radical Islam is not as powerful as it was in the 70s and 80s. They are a regional problem that won't be able to thrive against a state who is being sponsored by wealth beyond their measure.
Terror has always had recruits from all over. You just didn't hear about it on the news. You should consider that a victory. Not a failure. If you hear it on the news...they were discovered.
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I'm not justifying the war. That is your strawman. I'm a student of history. I know better than to shut the door to the impossible. USSR collapse. But feel free to construct a narrative 15 years before it is possible to judge the outcome of a war.
Stop with the comparisons to the fall of the USSR. It's apples and oranges.
And if you think radical Islam was more powerful in the 70's you are NOT a student of history.
And we don't get oil from the Middle East.
Ummmm. What? I'm lost, I have no idea where you are going with this. And after you I read that you believe we get no oil from the M.E. I've lost interest. We get almost 12-15% of our oil from Saudi Arabia alone.