> Garza wrote: > What most people in this country fail to grasp is that oil is a strategic > resource. If you think $3.00 a gallon at the pump is insane, what do you > think would happen if the extremists controlled the middle east?
Where do you think it came from 10 years ago? 5 years ago? Here's what's happened in a nutshell: (1.) Rich US oil people (i.e., Bushs) and politicians enabled a Middle East plutocracy while also leveraging the Israelis and a collection of nutjobs (Hussein) as a beach head to protect oil supplies. (2.) The ME plutocracy governed at their whims which, in the case of the Saudi Arabia, meant fundamentalist teaching. (3.) These fundamentalists grew up and, surprise!, starting practicing fundamentalism. (4.) The fundamentalists realized that their teachers weren't practicing what they preached, so they left to find a "pure" place to live. (5.) After the end of the Cold War the fundamentalists realized that the real problem was the plutocracy that was enabled and empowered by the US. They wanted to go home to finish what the plutocracy started but there's one problem: the US is still enabling the plutocracy. And thus all attacks against the US since. So what's our best option you ask? The same as it always has been. The Solution ---------------------- We pull our troops out of Iraq in some organized reasonable manner (i.e., 2-5 years). We continue to pressure everyone to towel off and keep it chill. If they don't we bomb the shit out of them and then ask them to chill. At the same time we ruthlessly hunt and kill Al Quaeda and any associated groups. Repeat. Same as 5 years ago. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:218637 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
