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3. Folks in the Middle East well know that the West has never

Tue Jun 24, 2014, 07:19 AM

Jun 2014

given a flying fugg about freedom or democracy. It has always been about Western national interests -power and resources. Everything else is farce.

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Robert Scheer: Where’s Saddam Hussein When the U.S. Needs Him? [View all] marmar Jun 2014 OP

du rec. xchrom Jun 2014 #2

Folks in the Middle East well know that the West has never malaise Jun 2014 #3

We seem to have squandered our credibility in the Middle East gratuitous Jun 2014 #4