But we do have a military presence in the Middle East, it's called Israel.
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- On 2013-05-16, at 8:21 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> was a typo. It wasn't to get hold of oil. To establish a military presence, yes. I still maintain that this is what we are doing there. It hasn't been successful - yet. But that was the motivation.
The US is pretty much trying to put the Iraq adventure behind it, and there is no evidence that "it is still trying to establish a military presence there…and hasn't been successful - yet."