That's the opinion of some well informed retirees here. They believe that if there were no oil or minerals, Western nations would have little interest in the M.E. or Africa, so long as no other major power (Russia,China) moved in. Gerry....who ends his 2 cents on the subject
G Mann wrote: > Before this thread spirals into the great dustbin at some No Such Agency > data storage facility.. one last bit... > > Mid East has never been stable in recorded history, far beyond the 1,435 > years ago when islam was invented by a caravan robber named muhammed, and > since, there has been no peace and no progress of organized unified > civilization. > > We in the Great Western Culture want quick, simple, easy answers. There are > none. > > All solutions for that region will involve more than one lifetime to > achieve, and we as a collective set of nations just don't have the patience > to achieve that. Thus, it will evolve into a violent set of actions [my > prediction, yours may vary]. > > ISIS / ISIL ¿ whatever they wish to call themselves, has a plan which will > not stay in their region.. it clearly requires the conquest of the Western > Civilization and it's conversion to islam.. which I believe is not an > acceptable choice for the majority in the West.. They will not "stay on > their turf" and be happy.. as much as we wish they would.. we can not > "appease them" by leaving them alone.. ISIS, under other names is already > well populated within the borders of USA and UK, France, Denmark, Sweden, > Germany, Canada, and Australia. Their marching orders are laid on already.. > ours are still fumbling in confusion [comforted yet?]... I'm not. > > The following countries were taken by conquest of the sword for the > furtherance of islam, Spain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, India [over > 80,000,000 Hindu killed], Lebanon, the list is much longer, but it > illustrates my point. If you read history of each of these countries you > will see a pattern of attack was followed by the followers of muhammed, > which is being once again replicated. Scared yet? Concerned? > > I am, it may impact my ability to own and enjoy an antique Mercedes. > > > > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Hendrik and Fay via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > The issue is not so much why they are there but the big question is how to > > go about making some real progress towards stability in the region but we > > better not discuss that. > > Anyway when you say you lost the back box, do you mean the actual arrows > > or will foxy just not remember where it was a few minutes ago? Can you go > > back by right clicking a page and selecting back? > > Haven't used foxy in a while as it became too bloated, chrome has spat a > > dummy after an upgrade so i am using chromium at the moment. > > > > Hendrik > > who gets frustrated with all this high tech stuff sometimes > > > > On 18/09/14 11:36, archer75--- via Mercedes wrote: > > > >> Wow! It doesn't take long for this group to implode! Since some people > >> say the reason we are in the Middle East is OIL!, let's stir some of that > >> in and really get everyones cajones in an uproar. (Just kidding!) > >> > >> In the meantime, I've lost something and would really be grateful if one > >> of the computer experts on the list would help me find it. It's the "back" > >> box in Firefox. It's driving me almost as crazy as when one of my old VW > >> Beetles lost its backup gear. I can still hear the UF students laughing > >> while I pushed it out of a parking space at the Thirsty Gator. I've looked > >> everywhere, tried everything, and can't imagine where it got off to. Really > >> getting tired of having to reload a website every time I want to go back > >> one page. > >> Thanks in advance, > >> Gerry > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. 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