01-13-2003, 10:00 AM
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Originally posted by dio_j:
If the US had ANY imperialistic goals or was on any kind of epire like expansion we would currently be the owners of Iraq and Kuwait, and would have been so for more than 10 years after that brief 100 hour ground scuffle in '91.
Well you could not have stayed there. What would be your excuse. Instead you put an american friendly goverment in kuweit and kept iraq intact in order to have an excuse for letting there troops and equipment in order to keep the middle east under your immediate control.
That simple
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You were the one claiming we were out to make an empire, the winner in a fight needs make no excuses to others for their actions. Who would have kicked us out? Belgium? And for your Information the US did not put the government of Kuwait together. Better look up your history on the region. I do believe it was a "group" that did the divisioning. In actuality, the USA had little to say how the Ottoman empire and middle east were carved up and distributed.
What did happen is that US investors and rich people went to the middle east in the mid 20th century, paid the arabs for their land and oil and the right to drill, paid for the equipment and refineries, paid for the factories and port facilites......only to then have the arabs reneg on the deal and nationalize the whole works. I don't think that anyone could say that the US has NO interest int he middle east. And it is also fair to say that without the western nations money the middle eastern peoples would still be the nomadic primitives that they had been for centuries.
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