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Originally posted by fastpat
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What evidence do you have to support that assertion? I know of none, but plenty of evidence directly to the contrary.
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I base that assertion on 1) The country doing the pulling out is the U.S.; 2) which has very little support worldwide; 3) Is getting its ideological ass handed to it daily in the M.E.; 4) economically relies heavily on out-of-country oil reserves.
I won't disagree that other nations have pulled out of countries from whom they've received commodities, and not suffered consequences. But I will also argue that the U.S. is in a much more unique situation by virtue of its economic and political power than France, Britian, etc.