Reply #65: It's obvious now. Damnation.

[krispos42]

They have this ultra-twisted view of national security, one in which Oil is King. A free, prosperous, and democratic Middle East is dangerous to Oil because the emergence of a middle class in the MidEast would threaten the stability of the governments there, like it did in the US during the late 60's and early 70's. Social change, civil rights, gender rights, protests, labor unions, etc. And if the governments are threatened by internal instability, so is the oil supply.

So we have to destroy democracy in the Middle East and support authoritarian rule in order to keep the supply of oil pumping to the world.

I guess that's more critial than selling our industrial base overseas, but it perfectly explains Iraq. In their twisted view, the 3100+ dead and 30,000 horribly mangled Americans ARE defending the US!

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