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    here are many powerful lobbies that have dangerously shaped US foreign policy throughout the post WWII era. Saudi, Cuban, Jewish and Taiwanese are four. All 100% dedicated to their own interests with no regard to US interests.
    I am a bit surprised. Do you mean that US has no policy of its own and it is driven by immigrants? Apart from the lobbies mentioned, is the Anglo Saxon and German lobbies defunct?

    Second, this is an internal Chinese matter. That is our official position.
    if so, why is the US wasting money, when it is no position to waste money?

    US to build £8bn super base on Pacific island of Guam
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...d-of-Guam.html

    Third, the US is probably the most important economic partner for both parties and controls the seas that both receive and ship all manner of goods through. We have all kinds of leverage beyond simply racing into the middle of someone else's internal dispute. How would you have felt if Great Britain had sent in a massive force to prevent the US from reconsolidating the nation during the civil war? Do think there would not have been a century of conflict following, as half a dozen weak nations came to be where the US exists today? Not our fight, and we have no legal obligation to make it our fight.
    Valid point.

    Why did UK intervene in WWII?

    It was only an issue with Germany and a few European countries.

    It was not in the interest of Germany to capture them. All the wanted is a wee bit of Lebensraum.

    Support has limits.
    Not as per the US and George Bush.

    You are either with us or against us!
    Last edited by Ray; 04-16-2012 at 05:02 PM.

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