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The fact of the matter is that the US is an imperial power with hundreds of military bases throughout the world. They seek to dominate global markets, resources, and labor, as do the European Union. The fact that billions of dollars are spent , and thousands of lives lost in the course of war are immaterial because it is we they tax payer and the 'little people' that pick up the 'bill' while the global elite become ever richer.

Once the conquest is complete, the Trans National corporations move in and reap the rewards. The IMF and World Bank dish out 'Aid' and in return the 'conquered' open up their markets, sell the rights to their mineral wealth, allow cheap subsidized foreign imports to flood the country, thus bankrupting the local farmers/businesses. And all the while the puppets that are are allowed to rule fill their pockets and the people become impoverished. Impoverished people equal a force force prepared to work for peanuts in sweat shops.

But we are the dumb ones because we know that politicians are liars but we believe the BS about 'spreading Democracy, Nation Building, WMD, war on terror,.

THE SIMPLE PLAIN FACT IS THIS, CHECK HISTORY, WARS ARE THOUGHT OVER LAND AND RESOURCES. Yes sometimes they are fought in self the defense, but in defense of land and resources!

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Even hardcore leftists like Michael Albert at ZNet have nothing but ridicule for the idea that we were in Vietnam to get access to whatever puny pile of tin, zinc, copper, or whatever.

I must be even more hardcore, then. The primary sources speak for themselves. It may not have significantly influenced U.S. policy, but folks invoked the allure of natural resources at the time.

Compared to those adventures, our involvement in the Middle East has been a sideshow.

Until 1991, perhaps so. These days it's the main attraction.

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