Completely correct, Linda

Submitted by Jeff (United States), Oct 4, 2007 at 22:57

Completely correct, Linda, except for one thing. They don't only dream and pray for our/the West's destruction-they plan and work for it. And yes, we finance all their efforts.

If we could even get oil down below 30 US dollars per barrel, Iran could no longer afford its nuclear weapons program. That stuff does not come cheap. And with the Saudis' other expenses (European real estate, trips to Monte Carlo, Pakistani sex tours, the sex slave markets of Turkey and Iran) 30 dollar per barrel oil won't leave them much to build and maintain schools of hate around the world, as they're able to today. Hezbollah and Hamas would start to run short on their currently limitless supply of US 100 dollar bills.

In short, a very different, and much safer world.

For all the vaunted Islamic scientific knowledge and prowess I keep hearing about, and now, in addition, Islamic economics, all the Muslim world really has is oil, put there by accident, retrievable only by foreign (infidel) technology, foreign (infidel) companies and foreign workers (stupid infidels).

They may have a point on the stupid part though, as we blissfully continue to finance a war being waged against us by very determined fascists out of the 7^th century.

I'll let a windmill block my view any day. Build them. And solar panels. And nuclear power plants. Whatever it takes to unhook ourselves from dependence on people who hate us, and use our funding to turn their hate into action.

Best Regards,
Jeff

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