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2. I definitely agree w/cutting some ties -

Reply to Powers Hapgood (Original post)

Tue Nov 24, 2015, 04:32 PM

Nov 2015

The U.S.’s fundamentalist allies in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) fund I.S. as their preferred anti-Assad agent, thus weakening the democratic forces opposing Assad.

We really need to look seriously at that alliance. According to recent sources US is getting 13% of it's oil from Saudi and 4% from Iraq. Surely we could cut that off and make it up from Canada, Mexico, and/or Venezuela?

Problem two - Bush's interference in the area was a disaster. Saddam Hussein was not a nice man, but he had folks under control. Now it's a fundamentalist free-for-all over there.

I'm not sure what the answer is for the Middle East but I think it involves a couple of things - a two-state solution for Israel/Palestine, and US getting the hell out.

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