--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > In a message dated 7/8/05 8:43:25 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > Measures to address global warming would > > involve reducing our dependence on fossil > > fuels, which would in turn reduce our > > increasingly disastrous involvement in the > > Middle East; and measures to address > > poverty would reduce the appeal of terrorism. > > > > this doesn't make a lot of sense to me. The industrial nations of > the world > > pour their wealth into these countries in the middle east to buy > their oil. > > There should be plenty of wealth for everybody in the middle east > to prosper. > > Look to their governments, mainly dictators, as to why their > people remain > > in poverty. > > But that's just the point. As long as we're > dependent on their oil, we have to make nice > with the dictators who control it.
What most people, conservative OR liberal, don't understand is that it is easier to control right-wing dictatorships than democracies. This is an official part of US policy decision-making and has been for many years. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
