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I'll second that motion.

I'll look for the thread to participate in.

Ahhh...I miss the good ol' days of American energy independence. When we made and refined so much that we'd export it to other nations. Oh...wait...that was last year.

I have no problem with that POV. I just wanted to make sure what you were aiming at with your previous comment. I think we'd do a lot better if we were less prone to putting our thumbs on the scales of other countries, especially in a military manner. What we do need is a relatively clear...

That's doesn't answer the question.

Yes, but my point was not so much with the religion itself, but that the politician/religious leaders in charge don't give a crap as long as they remain in power and grow their wealth. Pretty much a universal thing for politicians, they just have a very convenient lever to pull on in order to...

@Marduk I'm perfectly willing to let those countries rot in their own juices, but it won't happen without restrictions on what they can get in the way of aid, public and private.

The biggest problem with the ME is that they've wed their religion to their politics, and the politicians abuse their religion and followers to point them in certain directions.

If you want free trade and less delays in production/resource exchange the Suez needs to remain open. So this is a fair point. Not true at all. Should we have avoided the fight of WW2 w/Germany? Should we have ceded the Pacific to Japan? Should we let terrorist destroy our buildings and kill...

Why? Specifically, why aren't the goings-ons of other countries of a concern to us? Shouldn't we be interested in building, if not alliances, then partnerships that address specific areas of interest to the US?

This is simplistic, and not a federal issue. This is a local and state problem. Look to the leadership in those areas and you'll probably find someone embezzling money that should be going to infrastructure. Please, we spy on everybody, they spy on us. It's how the game is played, and it's also...