Hey, I'm totally confused! Other day I found some Prager groups on Meet-up, for sure one in San Francisco. Went looking for them this eve. and nothing came up... what did come up was groups for Underground Democrats, Dennis Kucinich, Impeach Bush...
Wuz' up?!!!
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
For Christmas, I gave my brother a book 'Sleeping with the Devil' by Robert Baer. He is former CIA and discusses our relationship with Saudi Arabia. My brother is not a President Bush fan, far from it. But he is, at last, willing to discuss our role in the Middle East. He sent me an old interview with Robert Baer and I found it to be interesting. This is my response after reading the article.
Robert Baer, Former CIA Case Officer and Author of "Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude." -.
It gives insight as to why we are in Iraq. This article is old and a lot has happened since it was written. Considering we are actually fighting an influx of Saudis there it appears that we are confronting the Wahhabi terrorists in a region that has a low impact on our economy. We are truly dependent on the Saudi oil and we need to preserve the huge deposits of Saudi wealth that is deferring a recession. We are slowly following a strategy that has probably been established for longer than a few political administrations. Each allowed to tweak it a bit, but until President Bush there has been little change.
Bush has us waging the war on terrorism, while negotiating a land mind of countries hell bent on destruction. Is it for oil? YES! We the people, may say we do not want to fight for Oil, but where would we be without it? You know we could take an old testament biblical approach, go in and remove all the governments, ... just take over. But in doing so, we could set off the long avoided nucular event, at least three countries in the region have nucular weapons. [India, Pakistan and Israel, soon maybe Iran]. We would probably destroy the very oil fields we are trying to protect and an entire ethic people would be annihilated or very nearly.
This is what it means to be an American in today's world. Remember, they hate us because we are the richest, the strongest, and the most charitable. They hate our charity because it diminishes their view of themselves. But, how would we fare in a world dominated by the Islamic Fundamentalist, or the Russians, or the French, or the etc.? We owe it to the World, and ourselves, to stay strong. The alternative is not acceptable. Am I missing something? The real question is who will take the reigns for the next 4-8 years? Someone who will keep us strong or someone who will bury our heads in the sand and wait for the enemy to come to us?
Robert Baer, Former CIA Case Officer and Author of "Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude." -.
It gives insight as to why we are in Iraq. This article is old and a lot has happened since it was written. Considering we are actually fighting an influx of Saudis there it appears that we are confronting the Wahhabi terrorists in a region that has a low impact on our economy. We are truly dependent on the Saudi oil and we need to preserve the huge deposits of Saudi wealth that is deferring a recession. We are slowly following a strategy that has probably been established for longer than a few political administrations. Each allowed to tweak it a bit, but until President Bush there has been little change.
Bush has us waging the war on terrorism, while negotiating a land mind of countries hell bent on destruction. Is it for oil? YES! We the people, may say we do not want to fight for Oil, but where would we be without it? You know we could take an old testament biblical approach, go in and remove all the governments, ... just take over. But in doing so, we could set off the long avoided nucular event, at least three countries in the region have nucular weapons. [India, Pakistan and Israel, soon maybe Iran]. We would probably destroy the very oil fields we are trying to protect and an entire ethic people would be annihilated or very nearly.
This is what it means to be an American in today's world. Remember, they hate us because we are the richest, the strongest, and the most charitable. They hate our charity because it diminishes their view of themselves. But, how would we fare in a world dominated by the Islamic Fundamentalist, or the Russians, or the French, or the etc.? We owe it to the World, and ourselves, to stay strong. The alternative is not acceptable. Am I missing something? The real question is who will take the reigns for the next 4-8 years? Someone who will keep us strong or someone who will bury our heads in the sand and wait for the enemy to come to us?
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