Quote Originally Posted by piece-it pete
Reading the gas thread below (very interesting) got me to thinking - none of those things matter if the ME goes up in flames. You think gas is expensive now?

That led to an examination of our current ME policy. The Iraq "war" was very devisive, but has faded in the public eye:

Iraq has so far been an overwhelming success story. Since most countries and the UN had a fit over this there are far-reaching positive (for the US) repercussions elsewhere, as well.

Iran recently pulled Al Jeezera off the air.

The Sauds have cracked down on homegrown terrorists.

Libya has become a US ally.

Pakistan is a US ally.

Syria is deathly afraid of us, and has "agreed" to pull out of Lebanon, which will almost certainly lead to the downfall of the current Baathist gov't currently in power.

Isreal is pulling out their settlements at US prodding.

Most other ME countries have had to put on at least a show of some sort of vote.

And you can bet that behind the scenes we are getting massive intellegence from most of the other regiemes over there.

Any comments?

Pete
The ends do not justify the means. Perhaps yet another lie discovered!