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Kasz216 on 06 February 2008
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Desroko said:
Kasz216 said:
That Guy said:

the US needs to be on friendly terms with North Korea before they withdraw troops from South Korea. I'm not sure if that's gonna happen soon, considering how crazy Kim Jong Il is.

 

Also, do you think if Hillary gets the nomination, she would nominate Bill Clinton as her vice pres? that would be pretty novel. A Clinton/Clinton ticket


If the US pulls out of Iraq, Iran and Turkey are likely to invade after the Civil War. If not them Syria... really there are any number of countries just waiting for the US to get out of Iraq... so they can get in.

There are plenty of countries who can't wait for us to get out so they can get in.


Turkey gets kicked out of NATO and loses US aid, so it's unlikely for them to invade, no matter how much they'll want to.

If Syria or Iran do invade, that's a legitimate casus belli. And unlike occupation, the US military does force projection very, very well. You don't have to put troops on the ground to wallop the hell out of somebody else.

 

They've already threatened to invade Iraq to get rid of the Kurds.  You can only do force projection when other nations let you however.  We were having trouble with that because the best nation we had to go through was Turkey.  Hence why I think the whole Iraq thing really happened, we really have no reliable portal into the middle east should we actually need to attack.

Other then Turkey the only really way we had in to some of those trouble countries was Israel... and there is no way the US is going to use Israel as a staging point against a middleastern nation.