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I see absolutely nothing wrong with this analysis, kingmi. There is little
doubt in my mind that much of this has as much to do with dwindling oil reserves as it does Mid-East politics. Keeping things balanced in the Middle East, however, is next to impossible. In the long run, just as it has in the short run, this is going to hurt us if we don't start establishing some type of international foreign policy damage control
posted by
saul_relative
on August 30, 2007 at 10:43 PM
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saulrelative, I think you have it. Your facts are all good.
Where we part company is the opinion. My take is that the War in Iraq was step two in re-establishing a new and needed balance of power in the all-important Middle East.
It may be 75 years before we can phase out the combustion engine, and this move (plus step three) buys us time. In the meantime, our trade relations with. underdeveloped Third World countries, and the corrolary inter-mingling of goods, raw materials, and security, brings more and more nations into our realm. When they are trading with us they tend not to go terrorist.
Now, a big part of the problem is this self-inflicted gridlock, a product of myopic opposition to anything Republican, which is against globalism, against the combustion engine, and convinced that it is already too late to save the planet.
That kind of hand-ringing and impatience with the present American global strategy, is impractical.
That's my opinion. Love ya'!
posted by
kingmi
on August 30, 2007 at 2:03 PM
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