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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
My immediate reaction would be to agree.... but, reflecting on it.... is the continued prosperity of 300,000,000 people worth one life? Two lives? Three? Tough question considering the lives spent on much, much less.... and celebrated in song and story, too.
Quoting Michael Yon... again. |
That is why we went there to begin with? Why we stay?
We are leaving without stealing their oil and natural gas?
I think not.
The DAY we have it secured, we are OUT of there & you know it.
Any good we do is incidental & PR.
Most Americans don't know about the untapped reserves of oil on the Iraq Kuwait border, it is HUGE.
It is the third largest land field ever discovered, the largest currently existing. (Part of the reason for the Kuait war, other than his need for more money, was over reveng for Kuait's possible side-drilling/or attempt to into it over the Iraq border)
All of this crap started when it was discovered.