Why were American soldiers in Jordan in the first place? - eviltoast

Everyone is talking about the American soldiers killed in Jordan. But I don’t know why they were there to begin with.

  • dragontamer@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The Iraqi Constitution says that Iraq is in charge of the oil, and what US imported we paid a fair price for.

    And most of Iraq’s exports is oil. So how is this imperialism? Iraq keeps it’s most precious resource and we pay a fair price for it despite militarily enforcing the area. In fact, there is a lot of criticism from the Republican base that we didn’t take advantage of the Iraqis.

    Are you saying that we SHOULD have take the oil??

    • One_Honest_Dude@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      We overthrew their government and the government we put in power is more friendly toward us. How is that not imperialism?

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        10 months ago

        I’m not denying that we got rid of Saddam. What I’m saying is that the move isn’t as self-serving as many critics try to force. The earlier post is trying to argue that we’ve somehow stolen the resources of Iraq, but no such thing has happened.