# Greenwald: "Endless war is official US policy"

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**Created:** [October 13, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenwald-endless-war-is-official-us-policy/701209 "2014-10-13T16:11:30Z")\
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> [@The Metaphysics of Materialism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-metaphysics-of-materialism/88392/181):
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> And?

And what happens if ISIS manages to legitimately take control of Iraq or Syria or both? What happens to Kuwait? What happens to Saudi Arabia? What happens to Lebanon? What happens to Israel? What happens to the international economy? Do you think America exists in a vacuum and that nothing that happens there affects anything that happens here unless we stick our nose in it?

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