Quote Originally Posted by McLeodGanja
Completely withdrawing from the middle east sounds like a good plan to me, but is it going to work?

I think America should pull out of most countries it has set up air bases in as well, including the UK.
If we pulled out of the Middle East, I believe that the Sheiks would try to win our business back.

We shouldn't be using up the oil anyway. If we had alternatives sources of energy, what would the Middle East do? They have little else to offer the world, besides accumulated capital. They'd be financially de-fused and their people would have to either suffer, and turn into Third-World nations, or get a better system.


Yes, the United States should remove most of their military bases, especially from Europe. They were originally put there to protect them against the communists, specifically the USSR. There is no reason to waste our resources on that anymore.
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