This whole Middle East Thing

[Bhuddahhoodlum]

i'll be honest, i don't dig the politics. it's all... just... a.... foreign alien language from outer space to me. but i was flippin channels recently and caught a news rant or something on whatever is going on in the middle east. thing is i found myself asking, what happened to us getting that Osama guy?

i mean 9/11 was what, two or three years ago? wasn't that what we went over there for? cause i ain't a rocket scientist, but i don't think the WTC had anything to do with gas price influence, right?

y'all seem like the informed types. what's goin on out there?

 

[PuffnScruff]

how can you get a guy who most believe is in a country that wont let us in to get him and wont do anything about handing him over? plus there have been man speculation reports that he is dead. the last one i read said he died in iran a few months ago. not to mention if he is still alive he is surrounded by a shit load of people that will hide him and die for him, and lay down children to die before he is captured alive.

gas prices have nothing to do with the war, OPEC, they are evil.

fighting terrorism isnt something that is going to be done and over with in a year or two, its going to take decades, this was a president who finally woke up and smelled the coffee, after the US and other countries have been struck by terrorist for years, 9/11 was the last draw. we just finally have a president with enough balls to start something even though in reality,and i think the president know this, it will not end with him in office, but if we are lucky, and by we i mean the whole world, our grand kids will live in a more peacful place.

get use to wars, because another one is coming soon. iran is trying to pressure israel to strick first so that the leader of iran can go ape shit, not that he isnt already crazy.

 

[ill-matic]

No one gives a shit when North Korea boasts about its nuclear abilities. One word from Iran and the US has gone ape shit. Hmmmm

 

[DrugBa11ad]

i mean 9/11 was what, two or three years ago?

Good try, you're sorta close.

 

[Tru Principle]

Good try, you're sorta close.

loooooooooooooool :laugh:


closed.

 

[The.Menace]

Dude, you gotta inform yourself. Seriously, I don't even really get the question. Listen "middle east" thing is a wide range of problems, the Israel-Palestina problem is as well "middle east" as Iraq or maybe even Afganistan, that you seem 2 refer to cause your talkin about Osama Bin Laden.

So well, to ask about 'the middle east thang' really isn't a question you can anwser, what are you referin to? I'd suggest you take a good look at a map first of all......

peace

 

[albohemia]

The invasion of Iraq was never in the interests of the U.S. It was in the interests of Iran and Al Qaeda. For Iran, it avenged a grudge against Hussein for his invasion of the country in 1980. For Al Qaeda, it made it easier to kill Americans and citizens of other allied nations.

The prewar dream of a liberal Iraqi democracy friendly to the US is no longer credible. No Iraqi leader with enough power and legitimacy to control the country will be pro-American.

 

[XIAN]

i mean 9/11 was what, two or three years ago? wasn't that what we went over there for? cause i ain't a rocket scientist...

(In Dr. Evil voice)
...Riiiiiiiight...

 

[S. Fourteen]

No one gives a shit when North Korea boasts about its nuclear abilities. One word from Iran and the US has gone ape shit. Hmmmm

Do you mean YOU don't give a shit? It's all chess moves.

 

[roaches]

The invasion of Iraq was never in the interests of the U.S.

Yes it was. Saddam Hussein was agitating for oil markets to convert to euros instead of dollars.

Incidentally, Iran also wants to do this.

 

[albohemia]

Yes it was. Saddam Hussein was agitating for oil markets to convert to euros instead of dollars.

Incidentally, Iran also wants to do this.

Iraq has never been a very attractive site for a market, given the volatile nature of its politics, the U.S. sanctions against it and the lack of a fair legal system. Also there is absolutely no indication that the European Union is interested in vying to become the world's central bank due to fear of astronomical currency deficits.

There are much bigger threats to the US economy than the trade surplus / inflationary pressures associated with empty aspirations of handicapped nations.