(April 2, 2016 at 1:49 am)JuliaL Wrote:(April 2, 2016 at 1:22 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: JuliaL
It doesn't matter. The source might be garbage,but we don't need this to realize what ISIS is.
Julia..do you truly believe from deep inside, the funny show happening in Syria and Iraq?
The US gets blamed for backing despots, or for trying to remove them.
I don't think the violence of the middle east requires America as the chief inciting cause. We're just convenient to blame.
There seems to be enough collective hatred to keep things going without our help.
The Shia vs the Sunni.
The Arabs vs the Persians.
The modernists vs the traditionalists.
The oil-rich vs the impoverished within or between nation states.
Everybody vs the Israelis.
I'm in favor of establishing US energy independence through increasing efficiency & fast breeders and for growing oil producing crops to provide carbon backbones & polymers. Then go about our business of living well by satisfying our customers. I don't want the Saudi or Iranian oil and certainly don't want to deal with their medieval minds.
Cut off the oil money and with some luck, the region will realize that joining modern society is more pleasant than living in tents in the desert no matter what great granddad bedouin did.
The Saudis are socking away $trillions to buy up the large American companies before the Chinese get all of them. The world is changing.
