Is it time for the U.S. to withdraw from the Middle East?

[koalabear]

Unless someone is permitted to find an alternative energy source to run our cars, we won't be leaving the middle east any time soon.

Let's see, natural gas, electric. Plus I am working on a coal burner as I type.

 

[Recidiva]

Let's see, natural gas, electric. Plus I am working on a coal burner as I type.

This made me think you had a coal burning computer and that was kinda funny.

 

[Peregrinator]

Perg, stop farting all over the place! I can't hear the Adolfs on the microphone at the pew!

Ewwww, stinky, stinky factual truths!

Notice the responses? No one even bothered to say "What's that smell?" and then get on with the spin. They politely pretended not to notice any facts.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Peregrinator]

Did Vetteman use the word "pusillanimous" yet?

 

[zipman]

Did Vetteman use the word "pusillanimous" yet?

It's still early.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Did Vetteman use the word "pusillanimous" yet?

It's still early.

I've got ten large going on "benighted" coming in second.

 

[Peregrinator]

I've got ten large going on "benighted" coming in second.

Damn that Paul Harvey for dying before he got to "N" in the dictionary!

 

[Recidiva]

I've got ten large going on "benighted" coming in second.

The people who are condemning violence in the Middle East while expressing hatred for entire nations and cultures and religions...they are not experiencing any level of cognitive dissonance...their heads should explode.

We should store plutonium in some heads, we'd be completely safe from radiation. The skulls must have some sort of shielding effect from all things real.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

The people who are condemning violence in the Middle East while expressing hatred for entire nations and cultures and religions...they are not experiencing any level of cognitive dissonance...their heads should explode.

We should store plutonium in some heads, we'd be completely safe from radiation. The skulls must have some sort of shielding effect from all things real.

That reminds me, Captain America called. He needs a new source of vibranium for a spare shield. Think maybe some of the heads around this joint are good enough for three.

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[BotanyBoy]

Judging by some of the people here, it's because you are a nation of imbeciles.

Sounds legit....It is the american way.

"Broke? No creit? bad credit? Only make 30k a year? no problem we will sign you on a brand new BMW 0 down!!!!!' Come buy shit you don't need and can't afford....Merikuh, fuck yea!!!"

 

[unregistered]

 

[zipman]

Did Vetteman use the word "pusillanimous" yet?

Folks who voted for Obama ought to be looking at the facts, it's his pusillanimous policy that's falling apart all across the Middle East, that's harming U.S. Interests, and getting Americans killed. It's not about his critics and their justifiable criticisms.

And Pereg wins.

Pay up Zumi.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

Notice the responses? No one even bothered to say "What's that smell?" and then get on with the spin. They politely pretended not to notice any facts.

Perg, was it your intention to contend that oil is not one of the reasons for US involvement in mid east affairs?

 

[Peregrinator]

And Pereg wins.

Pay up Zumi.

Bwahahahahahahahaha! Oh holy shit.

Perg, was it your intention to contend that oil is not one of the reasons for US involvement in mid east affairs?

No; my contention is that oil is the primary reason for US involvement in mid east affairs. Some jackdouche like busybody will come in here screaming that it's because we have to protect Israel, but I don't understand why we would have gotten involved in the place to begin with, had their not been black gold squirting all over the Saud's shoes. My intention was simply to give the percentage of oil we get from each source, since it seemed to be a point of disagreement.

 

[Adre]

Folks who voted for Obama ought to be looking at the facts, it's his pusillanimous policy that's falling apart all across the Middle East, that's harming U.S. Interests, and getting Americans killed. It's not about his critics and their justifiable criticisms.

Opinion parading as fact once again. What specific policy are you citing?

 

[zipman]

Bwahahahahahahahaha! Oh holy shit.

He's the gift that keeps on giving.

Good call.

 

[zipman]

Opinion parading as fact once again. What specific policy are you citing?

The Obama policy of making anti-islam videos?

 

[Peregrinator]

He's the gift that keeps on giving.

Good call.

Thanks. I'm proud of that one.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

And Pereg wins.

Pay up Zumi.

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Damn those Vegas odds! Never shoulda doubled down!

 

[zipman]

Thanks. I'm proud of that one.

It must suck to be so predictable that people already know what kind of stupidity you're going to repeat before you actually do it.

 

[zipman]

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Damn those Vegas odds! Never shoulda doubled down!

Don't give up, the day is still young for benighted.

Have some faith in his inability to be original.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

A friend once opined that prior to oil profits Arab countries have been dirt poor, or more appropriately, sand poor for centuries and that Arab unrest has a great deal to do with a world ghetto mentality of feeling resentment for being disenfranchised.

He also believed that their collective mental and emotional maturity has been stunted in relationship to the west.

 

[LongPenStroke]

So the US "choose" Mubarak? Like how? Did the Marines invade Cairo and install the evil dictator in place of his benevolent philosopher-king predecessor Anwar Sadat, whom these Marines viciously assassinated?

Damn. One learns something new every day.

Apparently you failed middle-east history, or never studied the subject. Mubarak was Sadat's vice president. When Sadat was assassinated, Mubarak moved into the number 1 position with the backing of the US, in exchange for US backing, Mubarak promised to keep the peace treaty and recognize Israel as sovereign state.

Tied to these promises was the promise of US foreign aid and sales of US military equipment and weapons. We, also, promised not to call for Mubarak's removal from office or for free and fair elections, but did require Egypt to set up a type of parliamentary system, but we settled for one that was nothing more than a paper tiger.

 

[zipman]

A friend once opined that prior to oil profits Arab countries have been dirt poor, or more appropriately, sand poor for centuries and that Arab unrest has a great deal to do with a world ghetto mentality of feeling resentment for being disenfranchised.

He also believed that their collective mental and emotional maturity has been stunted in relationship to the west.

The vast majority of the people in middle eastern countries are still dirt poor and their leaders wanted to keep them poor and uneducated.

Those same leaders always had an external enemy (most often Israel or the US) to focus people's anger towards instead of toward the rulers who were actually oppressing them.

They have still have terrible education systems, little freedom of the press and radical Islamists to contend with in many of those countries.