Reply #9: If we go down that path we can't be selective [View All]

[WatsonT]

only helping those oppressed people who happen to sit on oil.

And once done we couldn't simply abandon them to anarchy and poverty otherwise it would be a pointless intervention. We'd be in for the long-haul.

We could do it, maybe, with a draft and full war-time economy. It would mean a major hit to our standard of living, frequent terrorist attacks on our soil as we create enemies everywhere, and of course much fewer freedoms.