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The invasion may have largely been to prop up the petrodollar, since in 2000 Iraq began to accept Euros for oil instead of the US dollar. Middle Eastern nations only taking US dollars for their oil, like Saudi Arabia, allows us to spend frivolously and to engage in corrupt and unsound monetary...

Has the USA been constrained by morality with regard to our Middle Eastern policies in the last few decades? Considering the suffering, destruction, and massive numbers of deaths caused by recent activities there, the questionable (to put it mildly) justifications we have had, and the “allies”...

Russia dominates the Middle East? Let them have it. May they fare better there than we have.

It’s highly questionable whether or not the Iraq war has any effects on the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The idea that the USSR would decide to fight it out against the western democracies but were deterred because of our performance in Desert Storm strains credulity and I’d need some...

Iraq was an absolute disaster, sold to the American people with lies. The biggest one wasn’t even weapons of mass destruction, it was the idea that Iraq was somehow tied to 9/11. Of course, they didn’t overtly say that Iraq was involved in 9/11, but they exploited post 9/11 hysteria to generate...

Hannity is a moderate conservative who is particularly vociferous in criticizing the left. Basically like most of Fox News and the Republican Party in fact. Yeah, Erdogan isn’t much of a friend to the USA and it seems like he’s more interested in Turkey being an Islamic nation rather than a...

The “far right” news media? You mean some YouTube channels and people on Gab? What is this far right news media you speak of?

I would say that this incident shows that they’re allies in name only and that invading northern Syria in the way they currently are is biting our hand. Allies wouldn’t want to put us into a position to either fight them or look like fools.

I feel a bit conflicted. I have always thought that we should have stayed out of Syria and that all of our activity there has been wrong and counterproductive. So getting out of Syria has always been high on my list of priorities for US foreign policy. Though I hate the idea of, yet again...