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Tiger Beer
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 Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| bjonothan wrote: |
| By bombing them, it puts them way back and the extremists aren't likely to become a threat with anything other than small arms for the next 20 years or so. |
The best way to make them become less of a threat IS to make OIL irrelevant and worthless. If the U.S. invested, created, and marketed all kinds of various alternative fuel sources, youd have a Middle East that wouldnt have the money and resources to be a threat.
As it is now, the US builds, destroys and bombs them more, but all the bombs and military equipment and thousands and thousands of other advanced equipment takes untold amounts of money to maintain and run and ALL OF THOSE THING require OIL. The oil revenues once again go right back to the Middle East, and then we bomb and destroy and run more military types of activities requiring more and more OIL once again.
Id be more into becoming a non-oil dependent country, and we wouldnt have to be in that region, and if we werent there, no one there would care about us anyways. Then if no one cared about us, and we werent doing anything there, no one would have the desire or incentive or remote interest to bomb us at home. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
| bjonothan wrote: |
| By bombing them, it puts them way back and the extremists aren't likely to become a threat with anything other than small arms for the next 20 years or so. |
The best way to make them become less of a threat IS to make OIL irrelevant and worthless. If the U.S. invested, created, and marketed all kinds of various alternative fuel sources, youd have a Middle East that wouldnt have the money and resources to be a threat.
As it is now, the US builds, destroys and bombs them more, but all the bombs and military equipment and thousands and thousands of other advanced equipment takes untold amounts of money to maintain and run and ALL OF THOSE THING require OIL. The oil revenues once again go right back to the Middle East, and then we bomb and destroy and run more military types of activities requiring more and more OIL once again.
Id be more into becoming a non-oil dependent country, and we wouldnt have to be in that region, and if we werent there, no one there would care about us anyways. Then if no one cared about us, and we werent doing anything there, no one would have the desire or incentive or remote interest to bomb us at home. |
Have to admit it's a good strategy as a way to get the oil and create high paying jobs as well. |
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