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Originally Posted by Adam
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Anyway, to wrap up the point I was trying to make, oil is always a factor in the US's Middle East policy, as you seem to agree with in your most recent post. There's an argument, which I almost agree with, that we'd be better off simply forgoing Middle Eastern oil than paying the high price (including lives lost) of maintaining the security of our sources, and "no blood for oil" is the simplest reduction of that argument.
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Thanks, Adam, for clueing me in. I never understood "no blood for oil" in those terms. I always assumed that it reduced the complex reasons giving rise to our involvement to crass consumerism. I can understand it better as an objection when you put in the way you do.
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