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Entry: What if We Leave the Middle East? (We Won't Be Missed) Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/what_if_we_leave_the_middle_east_we_wont_be_missed#31199 Post contents: Thanks for the response, Mr. Hadar. Don't you see the irony in Pat Buchanan's book, which shows that WWI/WWII was all about stripping Germany and Italy of it's colonies, and expanding the British Empire? 'Cause that's what Marx and Lenin said, WWI was an "imperialist" war. That's one major disagreement I have with you "libertarians", the idea that "free trade" and economic interdependence create conditions for world peace. Which is a nice theory, but the fact is where the dollars flow, the soldiers follow. By making American dependent on foreign oil and foreign manufactured goods, we have created the conditions for constant war. America's economic security is tied to foreign oil and foreign manufacturing. To preserve it, the US MUST dominate the Mideast, and dominate the oil that the world economy needs. Again, we have Lenin's theory of Imperialism that seems operative, not Friedrich Hayek's quaint theories in his "Road to Serfdom". The freedom and economic security the US has achieved was by the judicious use of state power to plan and enact a industrial policy that made is "independent", not dependent. I started out 40 years ago, believing all the "libertarian" theories, but events have proven that "free trade" and "war for democracy" are as much a utopian fantasy as anything that the socialists and communists dreamed up. That's teh Sent at: 2008 12 02