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Originally Posted by Summerwind  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. |
How are they gonna get that oil to Europe if it has to come across that strait? I mean, the whole discussion was about closing that strait off. That's why I originally stated that they won't do it. It's their income.
And we will agree to disagree about the middle east. I firmly believe the entire Arab tribe is subhuman and a blight to the world.