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> and that the main role of our military is to ensure that our ideology (liberal democracy) is protected across the world.

This is why the US military is partnered with all the Middle East democracies, like the one in Bahrain, or the one in UAE, or the one in Qatar…

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There are not that many democracies in the Middle East. The US is allied with almost all of them.

Would you prefer democracy be delivered to those countries by force? If not, then accept the lesser evil.

It's fine if you either stick to your principles or play a game of shameless realpolitik.

Just don't pretend you can convince us that you are actually doing the former when all we see is you doing the later. We are not retarded. You are the retard for thinking we will fall for your rhetorics.

Realpolitik is shameless, that's kind of the whole deal. It's still how this stuff works. The US doesn't care about democracy because it's good for people in other countries, the US cares because it's good for the US.

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