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Originally Posted by Anthony
obviously all these wars aren't helping matters - i wonder if this is a great opportunity to pull troops and call it a day and label it "in the interest of preserving a sensitive American economy". it'd surely stop the bleeding. i think you'd have to be a fool to try to argue the American economy in its current state can handle footing the bill for the combined Middel East wars. i think it's time we start shifting our interests inward. i think this is a big reason why all the Iran rabble rousing rhetoric from the summer has calmed down to an inaudible whisper - going to war with Iran was already going to be a tough sell, but now? given our economy?
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(sarcastic - but has some basis in fact)
I actually think this recession was a fantastic ploy by the American goverment, the middle east (esp. Saudi Arabia) now owns a large percentage of the American financial institutes which makes them doing anything negative against the country much less likely.