Do you think the U.S. will drill itself into an oil glut?

[beerbaron]

You know what would be great?  If the western hemisphere became so awash in oil that we wouldn't even care about any of those middle eastern dynamics.  It would be like the period from the end of the last crusades to 1973.  Then the Sunni and Shia could go and emulate Europe of several hundred years ago and kill one another over their minor religious differences as much as they want until they get their fill and have an enlightenment, or not.

 

You mean just like we do for Africa... it doesn't seem like it's good for us in the long term. In sociology, instability breeds instability nothing good would come out of it. What's needed in the middle east like anywhere else for that matter is good incentives for the leaders to act on the best interests of the population they represent. Get that straightened out and you have another bright billion people to solve the world's problems.

 

BeerBaron

[rkbabang]

You know what would be great?  If the western hemisphere became so awash in oil that we wouldn't even care about any of those middle eastern dynamics.  It would be like the period from the end of the last crusades to 1973.  Then the Sunni and Shia could go and emulate Europe of several hundred years ago and kill one another over their minor religious differences as much as they want until they get their fill and have an enlightenment, or not.

 

You mean just like we do for Africa... it doesn't seem like it's good for us in the long term. In sociology, instability breeds instability nothing good would come out of it. What's needed in the middle east like anywhere else for that matter is good incentives for the leaders to act on the best interests of the population they represent. Get that straightened out and you have another bright billion people to solve the world's problems.

 

BeerBaron

 

+1 and I have no confidence that the US would stay out of the Middle East and let them fight it out among themselves any more than the US has stayed out of Europe in the last hundred years.  There were two big squabbles in Europe that the US inserted themselves needlessly into, well the 2nd one might have been necessary, but it was caused largely by the US involving itself in the 1st one.  The problem with the US is that it can't seem to mind its own damn business.  Causing chaos in the Middle East is just playing into the wet dreams of the lunatics in charge of the US war machine, who are just itching to let it loose "for real".