Iraq Negotiations
If poorer neighbors threatened by a bully begged us to defend them, we might feel morally compelled to respond.
But nobody asked us. Baker had to beg the Saudis to let us defend them. Then he had to beg Europe and Japan to let us die for them. What could possibly have motivated this perverse American death wish? Let’s see, who might gain? Military-industrial-petroleum profiteers?
ROBERT HANSEN
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