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Originally Posted by chesapeake
I also meant to point out that, before Bush II, you could argue that this has been the fundamental foreign policy of the United States for 225 years. No policy is 100 percent perfect, but I gotta say that not seeking fights and being tough enough to take a punch has served our nation very well for a long time.
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Well, to be fair, the Taliban "punched" us first. And Saddam ignored the 1991 cease-fire agreement*, under Clinton and Bush. Saddam did so almost daily before we finally "punched" back.
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Western planes patrol two "no-fly zones" in northern and southern Iraq and regularly come under fire from Iraqi defences.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/1511540.stm