<div class="gmail_quote">On 2 October 2012 04:16, Mike Dougherty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:msd001@gmail.com" target="_blank">msd001@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> So you think the USA is trying to "subdue the Middle East" for good and<br>
> noble reasons .....<br>
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</div>Hell no; for purely selfish and ignoble reasons.<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>Interesting issue.<br><br>Let us split it into its components:<br>- Is US policy in the M-E "noble"?<br>- Is US policy in the M-E good in some moral terms or other?<br>
- Is US policy in the M-E good for the interest of the US government and/or regime?<br>- Is US policy in the M-E good for the interest of the US?<br><br>I am inclined to answer "no" to *all* of those questions, but I do not think one's answer must necessarily be one and the same to all of them.<br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>