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WHY MUST THE USA STICK ITS NOSE IN PLACES LIKE IRAQ,AFGHANISTAN,SYRIA, IRAN,ETC OIL..AN THEY DONT HAVE ANY NUKES?
7 Answers
- The QuestionerLv 77 years ago
Afghanistan has no oil, we get no oil from Iran, Syria is barely a thought when it comes to US oil consumption, and Iraq provides 1% of our foreign oil.
What it comes down to is a confusing thing called geopolitics.
Afghanistan is due to the Taliban having actively housed and trained those who committed 9/11. If they had given up bin laden we probably would have let them be.
Iraq was due to violation of UN sanctions, among many other reasons. And is now due to the Iraqi government requesting assistance.
Syria requested assistance.
Iran is mostly keeping it from closing the strait of Hormuz which if done holds the potential of throwing the world into a global economic crisis which would have made the 2008 recession look like a day at the beach.
- DirkLv 77 years ago
WHY ARE YOU YELLING?
Its not as if the U.S. just jumped in this past week. The U.S. has been waist deep in the Middle East for decades. U.S. involvement goes along with being one of the top power player countries in this world. Its not an option for the U.S. to suddenly just throw hands up in the air and state "Were done, we dont want to play anymore."
Or stand up at a UN meeting and say
"As The U.S., we have decided were not going to send other countries aid and money anymore- just die, fhuck off and take the rest of the world with you, were out."
Like it or not the U.S. sticks its nose in the WORLDS business; the amount of power, money, and political pull the U.S. has on this world, gives them the upper hand to stick thier nose where ever they like.
People have to get that through thier thick skulls and deal with it cuz the U.S. is not going away.
And BTW, if the U.S. wanted that oil in the Middle East, the U.S. would have that oil in the Middle East.
- Anonymous7 years ago
Because Iraq and Syria have requested their assistance. A lot of people say the US need to stop being the world police, but even if they didn't intervene, they'd just receive backlash for not intervening, every nation would just say "why are other nations not providing support". If you are world leader in the west, you can never win in terms of public satisfaction.
- LINDA RLv 77 years ago
The quickest way to a peaceful world would be to Nuke them now. They are all miserable in one way or another.If they had Nukes they would have used them on us...we all know that.
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- rickmanLv 57 years ago
As Narox says they were asked to and without their help and ours as well there will be mass slaughter by Isil and it could be coming to a suburb close to yours if it keeps going the way it is .
- ForwardLv 67 years ago
They didn't at first. But when the ISIS became too much a threat, they had no choice.