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Originally Posted by jallman  Ha. Okay. The middle east would crumble back to the stone age without our guidance and support. Oil is the only thing that brought that barbaric wasteland out of tribal wars and once it's gone, I'll be more than happy to see it sink back into the sands. |
No you miss my point, there are plenty of other countries needing oil, they don't need us (USA) so much anymore. And honestly do you think Europe will refuse to buy ME oil just because we choose to boycott? Or China? Or India? It will be 10 years of dedicated domestic oil search and seizure before we could come close to replacing that much oil. So who'd be hurting more, the ME or the USA?
I also don't stand by your definition of civilized in order to judge the ME as barbaric; the ME has had many stages in its history including some that would put ours to shame relatively speaking. And it seems that current or recently past history as displayed to us in the USA may be quite propagandized, so I have little faith in the idea of barbarity that they supposedly needed to be saved from.