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Old 07-03-2009, 07:46 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by kameelyun View Post

Although a short answer to Terry's question would be: the dominating powers in the world (esp USA) have a vested interested in maintaining domination through control of the world's natural resources. Therefore, these powers need excuses to have permanent military bases and outposts in these strategic corners of the world. As such, they love to see chaos and instability in such regions as it serves as a perfect excuse for us to intervene. Anyway, we'll see how the currently developing history plays out.
Kameelyun, et al, how does the Suez Crisis of 1956 fit into this worldview? Happening only years after the 1953 Iran situation, it involved many of the same situations you list, yet the US response was to let Egypt nationalize the canal (by way of not supporting Britain, France and Israel). Why one and not the other?
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