US Military Dead during Iraq War 1056

Yup. Most of that was the rug, spice and oil biz. There must have been some tourist trade.

WEll, that's what I thought but there's a post somewhere that claims the US has been interfering for 2 centuries.

Right. We were inexperienced w.r.t. statemanship and foreign matters and they were better at it. France still has this delusion of grandeur.

A Dutch colony was the first.

I think we got out of the Colonialism biz around 1900. What I haven't figured out yet is whether colonialism did a lot towards rev'ing the rest of the world up to current technology and political maturity.

It's clear that the UN made a mess of uncolonizing most of those countries.

Yes, I have to read about these.

I just finished up Dayan's view of the first peace agreement. It is not clear that the US polity supported Israel. I find I now have to find Carter's book about that time. I don't think there was one from the Egypt side.

OK thanks. I'll look for them. None of these are Muslims, are they? I just tripped over a book written by Bernard .... which is about the stuff I need for data. I don't understand politics; it never makes any sense to me. I don't understand how foreign policy is done. Nobody ever writes about that.

Will this one give me a clue to how their brands of socialism is ceding to these extremists?

BAH

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