The problem is there are way too many fanatics running around on all sides. The only link between them is oil. The reason why we make up all these fantasis to invade other nations is the caspain sea and it's immense as yet unproven reserves of oil and potential for unlimited LNG for the booming Asian markets. In the next decade, just China alone will require more Oil than what the US consumes. http://www.thedossier.ukonline.co.uk/MAPS & CHARTS/CASPIAN SEA_ESTIMATED & PROVEN OIL RESERVES.JPG Looking at that map, and that tells you pretty much what the theatre of operation is. It's all about the oil and the old men whose dynastic fortunes depend on oil wealth. If they can control the Caspian sources, then they effectively control most of the future oil flow like they do the present ones.
Your attack of Arnie was not very nice.....we are not the fanatics! Remember the real fanatics are like the strange quiet kid in the back of the classroom in high school that would chant to himself and look at everyone with contempt...............we are the quarterbacks who got to have fun with the cheerleaders after the big game! :eek:
Exactly how? I didn't say we kill them all. I said we take out the nukes if they don't give them up. Do you really want a country like Iran to have nukes?
Not just the "old white guy dynasty" depends on oil? The UPS driver depends on oil. The airline employee and their passengers depend on oil. The plastic medical devise engineer depends on oil. The Greek fisherman depends on oil. The Russian food store truck driver depends on oil The Vietnamese power plant worker depends on oil. The African textile manufacturing employee depends on oil. Oil makes us all brothers/sisters with one common dependency.
The "old white guy dynasty" dictates which way the "oil wheel" rolls. The rest are all tiny spokes in that wheel. Big difference. With the fantastic breakthroughs in technology, if the "old white guy dynasty" wanted everyone to use alternative energy, we'd all be using alternative energy. However, the more the energy market fragments, the less of it he can control. So we'll never have alternative energy till the last drop of oil is burnt up. It's all about oil.
liberals my ass..... your boys in the white house are Trotskyites. your on the wrong side and don't even know it. what these guys have done is treason. trust me........i am more conservative than you are.
We have great intelignece services, we simply became a little too reliant on technology, and got away from Humint. I have no doubt we are back on track. As for your second assumption...it is fatally flawed...have you forgotten the fact that the iranians put korans in the hands of children and had them walk across mine fields? They care very little about life.
I am far more scared of W Bush than i am scared of a stupid muslim coming to america with a 5000 pounds bomb, unnoticed...