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Originally Posted by TheSollyLama
Actually Phil, that's a damn good idea. The elite of the arab world live lives of incredible luxury thru oil sales- and do little to earn any of it. Our soldiers have time and again sacrificed to maintain the oil flow- which benefits the arab leaders far more than it benefits us.
But why stop there? Canada has hidden behind the skirt of the US for decades- saving enough on defense to spend on public healthcare. Why not charge Canada, our biggest oil supplier, for decades of protecting them so they could have a miniscule military.
How about charging the UN for back rent on that office space in NYC? The US's backing of the corrupt and ineffective UN has cost the US taxpayer far more than it's benefited them.
I think you hit the nail right on the head calling the mid-east strategy little more than welfare. I think you ought to expand that to many other recipients of US goodwill.....and tax dollars...........
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Exactly. You may be being sarcastic here, but I think most of what you just said above is actually on the right track.
I don't think we've spent all that much defending Canada; no one wants to attack them (perhaps because they are pretty darned non-interventionist, perhaps?), but I think it would be fair to start charging fair market price to, say, Japan for keeping them secure, or Korea, or Europe. Then each could decide to pay us to do it, or take over themselves; they all could afford to handle their own affairs.
PhilB