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<blockquote data-quote="mightymouse" data-source="post: 2453272" data-attributes="member: 15253"><p>Do you think Middle Eastern oil is and always has been free? Was it just two feet under the sand, requiring only a garden hose and a hand-cranked suction pump to bring it directly to a corner gas station in the U.S? U.S. foreign policy throughout the entire Middle East is and always has been--since the mid 1940s at least--about OIL. And to get OUR oil out from under Their sand, the U.S. had to spend--and continues to spend--a huge amount of money in foreign aid, or development grants, or nation building, or whatever you want to call it, throughout the Middle East. Like it or not, we live in a hydrocarbon based economy, and the maintenence and upkeep of that economy requires that we pay much more than just what we pay at the pump. You can bury your head in the figurative sand, but the lifestyle we as Americans enjoy comes from our willingness to claim as our own the resources of others.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mightymouse, post: 2453272, member: 15253"] Do you think Middle Eastern oil is and always has been free? Was it just two feet under the sand, requiring only a garden hose and a hand-cranked suction pump to bring it directly to a corner gas station in the U.S? U.S. foreign policy throughout the entire Middle East is and always has been--since the mid 1940s at least--about OIL. And to get OUR oil out from under Their sand, the U.S. had to spend--and continues to spend--a huge amount of money in foreign aid, or development grants, or nation building, or whatever you want to call it, throughout the Middle East. Like it or not, we live in a hydrocarbon based economy, and the maintenence and upkeep of that economy requires that we pay much more than just what we pay at the pump. You can bury your head in the figurative sand, but the lifestyle we as Americans enjoy comes from our willingness to claim as our own the resources of others. [/QUOTE]
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