theim
Senior Member
MrMarbles said:Stop repeating the mantra of the 'right', and think for yourself. You sound like a new recruit about to drink the purple kool-aid.
By the end of the 1990s, however, oil-producing governments were mired in political crises, due to corruption, wars, and civil unrest. In Venezuela, Iraq, Algeria, Iran, and other producer countries, the US government appeared to be involved in destabilization measures, deepening existing social instability and what some scholars call the crisis of the rentier state."
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/2002/12heart.htm
I never said he was a nice guy. But there are alot of big bad guys out there that America does nothing about. Going after Saddam and turning your backs on others is very hypocretical.
Then don't say America invaded Iraq to protect herself whne it is about oil, that is intellectual dishonesty.
Between 70-80 cents per litre. Well, thats here in Winnipeg.
The big ineffeicent ones are hurting, but we have a lot of discount airlines that are doing alright.
The same as your extremist white assholes do there. So how are you doing sitarro? I don't think we have been fully introduced.
Have you ever seen their Musical Ride, pretty impressive. If i was a terrorist, i'd be scared.
Check out the link above.
My country has it's shit together. We are not under any real, or psuedo-threat for imaginary bad guys. Our biggest threat is from the "White, middle-class right" that keeps trying to import it's views upon us. Maybe racial profiling will work, it will at least cut down on the gun related crime in our country.
You know what? Whatever. To borrow from Lileks, If you wanna keep thinking that UN forces armed with nothing but stern looks and shrill whistles will bring all the worlds terrorists cowering in the ports of Belgium, go right ahead.
Canada is not the terrorists prime target for the same reason as Europe. It may be heart-wrenching, but the reason is that those two places don't matter half as much on the global scale as America.
Maybe it's better for you to stay woefully ignorant, lest you be accused of anti-socialist Thoughtcrime. Anyone who supports his country banning certain books and then goes on to say the dark night of police-state theocracy is about to descend on America because of things like the patriot act, I have very little use for.