USA foreign policy: is it entirely economical

i dont mind changeing the word 'ethics'.... but, what's the difference?

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is based on ethics. In fact, that goes for any nationality.

I refuse to drink the kool-aid! -- PM

I doubt whether any politician would use the word "Ethical" :)

usa doesn't have any friend or foe...

saddam/laden both were usa's friend at one point of time...

afghanistan has been more strategic in cold war because of russia...

i know its economical.... but, it bothers me when they say its more 'ethical'/bla bla bla...

Afganistan in the North West of its country has reserves of oil/Gas, plus it is vital route for the Central Asian oil and Gas to the Indian Ocean and so on."

Thanks to Fubar for the links..

It is to do more with long term strategy and interests , than purely money..

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I don't even know if I sent any good ones.

Seriously, there are shelves and shelves of books on these topics in bookstores everywhere, all saying the same thing. I just don't understand why people pretend that it's a secret that only high level CIA operatives know this sort of stuff.

It's common knowledge for anyone who bothers to look for it.

winterain. I think fubar has beaten me to it.

Thanks fubar...

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UK - The Petro Dollar story - Kuwait, Iraq, Afghan .. who next? Iran??

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It's hardly a well kept secret.

The internet is littered with articles about this, all freely available to anyone who takes the time to look.

Here's a few found in a couple of minutes using google. I'm not going to verify that they all come from reputable publications and are based in fact.

http://www.salaam.co.uk/themeofthemonth/december01_index.php?l=3

http://www.blueprint-magazine.de/oil/oil.html

http://www.rethinkingschools.org/special_reports/sept11/16_02/rich162.shtml

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/oil.html

http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv8n1/oilnln.htm

http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/11/26/afghan.oil/

http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/oil-pr.cfm

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/27c/029.html

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/sardi7.html

http://kassandraproject.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/911-gwbush-and-unocal-corporation-interests-in-afghanistan/

http://www.thedebate.org/thedebate/afghanistan.asp

i am excited to read the article.... can you please refer?

thanks.

The Central Asian states have been at the center of geo-political struggles for about the last 100 years, termed 'The Great Game'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game

Of late, countries invovled have been interested less in controlling geography as they have in controlling natural resources and their revenues.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Great_Game

There are dozens of books and articles about this, but most people would rather watch Friends, American Idol or Noor than watch the news or read The Economist.

Then they claim that governments are acting secretly behind their backs with covert plans to try and take over the world.

The truth is that people just don't care, otherwise they would be in the non-fiction side of Virgin, not the new release DVD section.

Not always.

I have to say you surprise me with your question. I would have expected that from the original poster. ;)

cynbob. I guess for US, attack is the best of defence the?

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that economics plays a very important part our foreign policy, but more importantly securing our nation's safety is the priority.

I read an interesting Article about why US is in Afganistan. As we are led to belive that the Yanks are there to root out the Al Qaeda Terrorist and so on. But most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi's not the Afghans.

Afganistan in the North West of its country has reserves of oil/Gas, plus it is vital route for the Central Asian oil and Gas to the Indian Ocean and so on.

So the to conclude it is all about the oil money?

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No one is honestly deluded enough to think that any country's foreign policy is solely about liberating the oppressed, or over throwing tyranical regimes, or solving humanitarian crises, are they?

Not only US, any country for that matter , their own inetersts will be the priority.

The whole international community kept quite when 1 million people got slaughterd in Rwanda. In the midst of the Genecide, UN even withdrew the few peace force they had deployed there prior to the riots. They came back later when the epidemics started to spread and to take the count of people died.

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Like Bush Senior rightly said. "We don't have friends or foes, we just have interests"

Who are we to dictate America's foreign policy?

If you want to change it get a green card and go and vote.

Needs dictate actions.. Nothing to do with economics..

Agree don't think there is much in N. Korea for the US and the US was quite vocal about Burma during the uprising, the same as they were against Zimbabwe. However the US can't invade every country and change the government!!

Where is the UN in all of this? Why don't they stand up to be counted??

What is the link between the US, North Korea, and economics?

North Korea is broke and starving and has no economy to speak of.

Foreign policy is guided by a lot of things, including at times economics, but to suggest it is 'entirely' economical is a bit simplistic.

If you had boil it down to one thing, I would say foreign policy is 'entirely self interested'.

What happened to majidmajidi and rafsanjani?

I refuse to drink the kool-aid! -- PM

There is no pretension... It is "we" who assume that countries are benevelant and do things out of teh goodness of their hearts...

brit, why the pretension?

Foreign policy and ethics do NOT go hand in hand. They should, but they don't. Foreign policy for ALL countries is based on expediency. They will do what is best for thir own country.