[QUOTE]Originally posted by Collegeboy
How is Saudi Arabia the best place to start making friends in the middle east?
Because they're the only nation with a large enough strategic reserve. It's not that they're the friendliest or anything, it's simply that to get have the reserve we need to be confortable we either need Saudi Arabie as an ally, or two or three other allies. And it's easier to have just one.[/b]
Like, why did we attack Afganistan, and why after the talliban was over with, we put in a pro US government, and then the pipe line that the Talliban have been saying no too, just all of a sudden got approved.
The government is pro-America (largely, but not completely) because we gave them their country back. It's not that we went outo f our way to find the 8 guys in Afghanistan that like us, it's just that popular opinion is (for the time being) largely pro-American because we deposed the people oppressing them. AS for why Afghanistan, because that's where the people that attacked us were. It was nothing against the people of the country, but the bad guys that lived there and the regime that harbored them.
Like, why did we attack Iraq, and why are we trying to say that Iran is trying to aquire nuclear weapons, when all they are doing is making a nuclear power plant, backed by the Russians, and now the US wants to make a nuclear plant in Iraq.
Because Saddam had to go. He oppressed his people. He threatened stability. He invaded his neighbors. He may have had, or been in the process of aquiring, contacts with terrorists (remember all the terrorists we've found in Iraq) to deliver strikes against the west. He had to go. And Iran IS trying to develop nuclear weapons. They clearly are and have been for a very long time. There are two reasons. First, they're bad people and they want a bomb for power and export. Two, they fear Israel. They know that they can't ever support an attack against a nuclear armed Israel without some juice of their own. As for a nuclear plant in Iraq, I hadn't heard that one. I'm intersted though so I'll look into it.
ALot of things don't make since, but bring it up, you are said to be a conspiracy theorist, crazy, unamerican, or what ever words being like to throw out to try and justify their beliefs.
Wait a sec, there's a big difference between asking questions (what you just did) and screaming that the President is killing babies for oil and wishing for a thousand Mogadishus and so forth. Those people are unamerican, the people that wish for the defeat of their home. People that are curious why the Taliban needed deafeating are simply curious, nothing wrong with that.
How is Saudi Arabia the best place to start making friends in the middle east?
Because they're the only nation with a large enough strategic reserve. It's not that they're the friendliest or anything, it's simply that to get have the reserve we need to be confortable we either need Saudi Arabie as an ally, or two or three other allies. And it's easier to have just one.[/b]
Like, why did we attack Afganistan, and why after the talliban was over with, we put in a pro US government, and then the pipe line that the Talliban have been saying no too, just all of a sudden got approved.
The government is pro-America (largely, but not completely) because we gave them their country back. It's not that we went outo f our way to find the 8 guys in Afghanistan that like us, it's just that popular opinion is (for the time being) largely pro-American because we deposed the people oppressing them. AS for why Afghanistan, because that's where the people that attacked us were. It was nothing against the people of the country, but the bad guys that lived there and the regime that harbored them.
Like, why did we attack Iraq, and why are we trying to say that Iran is trying to aquire nuclear weapons, when all they are doing is making a nuclear power plant, backed by the Russians, and now the US wants to make a nuclear plant in Iraq.
Because Saddam had to go. He oppressed his people. He threatened stability. He invaded his neighbors. He may have had, or been in the process of aquiring, contacts with terrorists (remember all the terrorists we've found in Iraq) to deliver strikes against the west. He had to go. And Iran IS trying to develop nuclear weapons. They clearly are and have been for a very long time. There are two reasons. First, they're bad people and they want a bomb for power and export. Two, they fear Israel. They know that they can't ever support an attack against a nuclear armed Israel without some juice of their own. As for a nuclear plant in Iraq, I hadn't heard that one. I'm intersted though so I'll look into it.
ALot of things don't make since, but bring it up, you are said to be a conspiracy theorist, crazy, unamerican, or what ever words being like to throw out to try and justify their beliefs.
Wait a sec, there's a big difference between asking questions (what you just did) and screaming that the President is killing babies for oil and wishing for a thousand Mogadishus and so forth. Those people are unamerican, the people that wish for the defeat of their home. People that are curious why the Taliban needed deafeating are simply curious, nothing wrong with that.
, so I don't know. No country has EVER successfully invaded America! Successfully does not mean landing and fighting a battle, it means capturing and conquering. We have repulsed all who have tried. 
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SEE?!? deep down inside you ALL KNOW IT
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