-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Wishing all Goanetters | | a Prosperous | | and | | Happy New Year - 2006 | | Goanet - http://www.goanet.org | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- George Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kuwait oil is in US operational control. It does not > legally have to be in US hands although there > is some legal ownership too camoflaged in complex > "business contracts". The supply is guaranteed > to Exxon (Mobil), Texaco, Chevron, etc. with mega > profits guaranteed to the Sheik and US oil > companies, a win-win for anti democratic forces. > Does anyone think that Saudi Arabia or Kuwait is > free NOT to sell to US oil companies? > Mario asks: > This is like saying that foreign investors have "operational" control over the US economy since they hold massive amounts of US securities. Besides, oil is a commodity. Why would any of these oil countries NOT want to sell to US oil companies, which have done all the exploration that found these oil reserves? How does George think these countries survive other than with income from selling oil? Even communist controlled Venezuela sells it's oil to the US and owns US oil companies. > George continues: > > Kuwait is a prime example of US uninterest in > freedom and democracy. The US had the opportunity in > 1991 to promote freedom and democracy but the Sheik > was reinstalled after the Gulf War. The lack > of interest in freedom and democracy in Saudi > Arabia, Kuwait, Pakistan (US allies), tells us of > the USA' real intentions in the region. > Mario observes: > This is a classic example of the comical damned if you do, damned if you don't, approach of anti-Americans like George. > The US has just liberated 50 million Afghanis and Iraqis at the expense of much time, treasure and American lives, and is helping them develop into functioning democracies. To an anti-American like George this is proof that the US is not interested in freedom and democracy. > The US policy is to encourage the spread of freedom and democracy around the world, with the local countries choosing their own form of democracy. The long-term goal is a lasting world peace, because democracies tend not to unilaterally be aggressive towards their neighbors. This scenario is not to the liking of the anti-American "regressive totalitarians" like George, who offer no rational soultion to anything other than socialism and totalitarianism, which have both been soundly rejected around the world, even by it's most ardent previous proponents. > Common sense, often conspiculously lacking in George-type-anti-Americans, would tell us that the rationale for this policy dictates that allies and peaceful non-aggressive countries are not at the head of the list for forceful change. Thus, the countries George has listed are being prodded towards change, and not forced, because some of the Islamo-fascist alternatives in those countries are worse than the status quo, which make make George happy, but would defeat the long-term US strategy of promoting a lasting world peace. > George conveniently ignores the fact that the UN mandate in 1991 was for the coalition to eject Iraq from Kuwait, not to impose a regime change in Kuwait. There was not even a mandate to remove Saddam from power in those pre-UN-1441 days, another fact conveniently and dishonestly ignored by anti-Americans. > Besides, aggressive anti-Americans like George also ignore the changes that ARE taking place in these friendly middle-east countries in terms of prodding them towards democracy. > George, you are right in some sense, but also irrelevent. The US does benefit from middle-east oil, which was discovered by US and British oil companies, not Arabs poking sticks into the sand. However, anyone with a soupcon of knowledge about the world economy would know that the US is far less dependant on this oil than most of Europe and Japan, and that the world economy depends on a free market in oil. Thus the US will never allow the free flow of oil to be interrupted, for everyone's benefit. For bitter totalitarian radicals like you, this is bad news. Sorry. >
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