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Saudi Arabia is a dictatorship! Trading with dictators is what the GOP gave us when normalizing relations with China. A free Nation should never have to support the non-free Nations or the Southern States. The right wingers are a bunch of moochers. After the mid 1980s, the Democrat party changed, the Reagan democrats gained control, in other words the FDR liberals lost control. The right with all their money bought the Democratic party, and made Clinton and Obama Republicans. While the Republican party became Nazis, and have intentionally bankrupted America the last 40 years. Fair trade is when two free nations export and import about the same amount of stuff. Free trade is when a nation imports about $400 billion dollars a year worth of goods and only exports about 50 billion dollars a year worth of goods to the same Nation. Last I checked that was China. Obscene trade deficits are the result of free trade. And supporting a dictatorship even makes it worse.

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This is actually largely incorrect. Henry Stimson was a Republican and all democratic secs of war and state under truman and Kennedy came from stimson's original influence.

Take a look at what the cia did around the world before Ronny Reagan. Get familiar with the concept of foreign debt and the US dollar as a reserve currency - the role of imf and world bank, institutions headed by people like Robert McNamara and now Schmidt of Google.

Carroll Quigley has taught legions of members of our state department, engaged in the foreign service, of how important currency exchanges are. In fact he'll jump up and down to tell you that you cannot understand the 20th century without understanding how important currency is. And the story you're telling is a popular one, which discounts or ignores the role of debt and currency in world affairs, let alone everything the cia did before 1980.

"Don't come here!"

"The US dollar will ALWAYS be the worlds reserve currency!"

(Recent pronouncements by ostensibly liberal democrats.)

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