06-27-2004, 08:35 PM
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Originally posted by Stratos:
Yeah, you're right. What's right has unfortunately little to do international politics. Or rather, it's only a part of it.
Ultimately, I see the war in Iraq, for example, as an attempt to create some form of stability in the very oil rich Gulf Region. Instability in that region would affect oil prices, and since our societies are dependent on oil, our economies. By creating democracies in the Middle East, stability would hopefully follow and there would be less risk of an oil crisis. But that's ultimately also a selfish reason, isn't it? 
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That is exactly what proppingup Saddam in his war with Iran was for as well. AND it was done for all the nations of the West not just the USA. The USSR in dire need could have developed their own extensive oil reserves..they may actually have more oil than the Middle East(if they still existed that is).....but not everyone wants to look all the way round the issue.
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