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Old 09-25-2008, 06:55 AM   #35
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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
Do you consider the territory of Iraq to be US property now since we "won it" in the Iraq war? Ditto for Afghanistan? Are we ethically free now to plunder all of their natural resources, including their vast oil reserves?
Your analogy is inapt. Neither Iraq or Afghanistan is contiguous with the U.S., nor threatens our very existence, nor has pledged to wipe us off the face of the earth.
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