Foreign Relations - the Chicago Way

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Originally Posted by finnbow

Middle Eastern security threats we face are largely attributable to carrying Israel's water for over 60 years. To the extent they provide us intelligence, it's not much of a repayment for the $115 billion we've given them, not to mention the lives expended in Iraq on their behalf. Hell, it's our support of them that largely causes our need for the intelligence to begin with. With friends like them, ....

We were in Iraq because of Saudi Arabia.

We're the vicious Islamic nations' foes because they need a scapegoat to detract from the conditions their policies create.

Pete