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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
So why exactly do you think we are there then? we gave up on S E Asia and Africa, even South and Central America in the 70's, what is it about the Middle east that we still feel the need to actively prop up Absolute Monarchs and brutal dictators in the name of democracy, even when they periodically cause terrorist attacks on us like 9/11?
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Because Israel is there and not in those other places?
The US dropped the atomic bomb on Japan and then totally abandoned Asia until the Korean War (UN forces)