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2007-02-05 Arabia

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Posted by Steve White 2007-02-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 To be painfully frank, if America and the West were to dump us we would soon be saying 'Come back, all is forgiven'.

If we no longer had the benefit of US satellites, for instance, our communications would be cut. If the West stopped supplying spare parts, our planes would be grounded; our hospital equipment left to rust.

Moreover if we work towards harming the US economy, in the end we will only be harming ourselves since our own economies are inter-related and inter-dependent and especially since our currencies are pegged with the dollar.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-05 06:14|| 2007-02-05 06:14|| Front Page Top

#2 there's nothing here that says "we want America," just that "we need America" -- a necessary evil, apparently.

Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan 2007-02-05 08:34|| 2007-02-05 08:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Pull the US Navy off the high seas for a couple of years and watch world trade sputter as piracy becomes a major international business once again shutting down major exports, like oil. You think major naval projection is in the budgets of most major, let alone minor, countries?. Guess who'd be hit hardest first? File under "What have the Romans ever done for us?"

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-02-05 08:50|| 2007-02-05 08:50|| Front Page Top

#4 I say we seize all the oil fields, wall them off to keep raiders away and sell it to the world at 10% profit.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-02-05 09:15|| 2007-02-05 09:15|| Front Page Top

#5 What DarthVader said.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-02-05 09:27|| 2007-02-05 09:27|| Front Page Top

#6 The only thing stopping a Pax America policy is the unhealthy dogma that Americans should work at being liked. Who gives a F@#$? Those nukes have been drawing dust for too long.

Posted by Sneaze 2007-02-05 10:06|| 2007-02-05 10:06|| Front Page Top

#7 A recent BBC poll ... indicates 49 per cent feel the US plays a mainly negative role in today's world.

And these would be the neary half the people who are below average?

As for being loved, if you run down the roster of the UN, you will find that roughly half the member countries are run by dictators, pimps and kleptocrats. (Take the Human Rights Commission. Please!) I'm proud to be hated by the likes of them.

Posted by SteveS 2007-02-05 11:09|| 2007-02-05 11:09|| Front Page Top

#8 I think the US is better off being hated than loved. Can you imagine your cities swarming with such "friends"?

Posted by SwissTex 2007-02-05 14:03|| 2007-02-05 14:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Khalaf Al Habtoor seems to know what he's doing businesswise, but the lunatics want just what he warns about. They desire to split their Arab masters from the west, and rein in the chaos. Maybe this is like the first muzzie to get it, kinda like the first lefty to get it, Lieberman.

Posted by wxjames 2007-02-05 19:29|| 2007-02-05 19:29|| Front Page Top

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