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To: Alberta's Child

“Perhaps President Trump will first explain why the U.S. has any reason to respond to an attack on Saudi Arabia.”

It’s been a de facto US policy since the end of WWII that we would ensure the free flow of oil in the world.

Ever heard of the Carter Doctrine? Even he was willing to risk existential war to do that.

Oil flowing out of the Persian Gulf is a core, strategic US interest. And has been for at least 75 years.

Effective attack on that flow will most certainly bring substantial war. Whether you or I or anyone else likes it or not.

32 posted on 09/15/2019 7:07:32 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)

To: Mariner

If you’re reduced to suggesting that President Trump should follow Jimmy Carter’s lead, then you may as well start planning Joe Biden’s inauguration.

38 posted on 09/15/2019 7:17:49 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)

To: Mariner

P.S. — if oil flowing out of the Persian Gulf is a core U.S. interest, then why have we imposed an embargo on Iranian oil?

39 posted on 09/15/2019 7:19:35 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)

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