gallantwarrior
Gold Member
Now here's a world view for ya!So we just wipe out everyone participating in the mob? Personally, I think we should just let them do what they want, where they live. We should withdraw all military presence and all monetary support for every project. We have plenty to attend to here in our own country. Unfortunately, our pols do not agree and will insist on throwing ever more of our resources down shitholes like the Middle East.
I suppose that college campuses during the late 1960s would not be worthy of any funding because of anti-war protests. Or the Deep South should have been excused from federal largess due to the actions of Sheriff Bull Connor and the likes of him. I suppose the only worthy society is a fully compliant society. Who sets the rules for compliance?
And since the Middle East is such a shit hole, and similarly should be cleared from our national radar, we should not get so upset when they shut off the oil again.
If we followed your prescription, we would not only be energy starved, paying exorbitant prices to heat our homes, drive our cars and get anything delivered to anywhere, but we would also be even more beholding to whatever power steps in to fill the massive vacuum left by our absence.
We would not be energy starved if we could pull the environmentalist zealots heads out of our asses and developed our own energy resources. We have plenty of energy available to us but so much of it is off-limits to development, it isn't funny. So let the rag-heads shut off the flow of oil.
Fact is, the Middle East has been a hotbed of tribal conflict for as long as they've been writing about it. Libs are very fond of telling us that we wouldn't have problems with muslim terrorists if we hadn't interjected ourselves into their affairs. I agree. So let's get the fudge out of their affairs and leave them to it. That way, they can do whatever the hell they want to their own citizens.