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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I am still waiting for one of you to explain why 'we', the US specifically, are still involved massively in the Middle East, either with direct or indirect military involvement, troops, guns planes, sympathetic local stooges and Kings to keep the locals in check, when we gave that up in SE Asia Africa and the America's 50 years or so ago.
If it isn't the massive reserves of Oil why is that?
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Because of Israel for one. Because by their calculations what replaces unsupported regimes, regardless of how horrible they are, have the potential to be much worse is another. Also they don't want a Sunni and #####e originated cold war occurring between Iran and SA for regional domination. Because the place is a mess, regardless of the original cause, and they deem it will be better if they stay rather than walk away, even if the "better" is pretty bad.
If your logic was correct, we'd have been gone pretty much once OPEC became a thing. So it's clearly more than oil.