10-02-2015, 12:35 AM
(10-01-2015, 10:15 PM)Millhouse Wrote: 3. which is perhaps the most important is if there was no oil over there.
(10-01-2015, 10:20 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: If #3 were true, they would be of no consequence.
(10-01-2015, 10:24 PM)GodHatesBengals Wrote: If there was nothing valuable for us to exploit in the Middle East, America would just stay the hell out and let them eat each other. Everybody knows that.
What the Middle East needs is the same thing Puritan America needed, and Christian Europe needed: a strong secularist-rationalist movement.
Think of the money we would save in military spending if we could develop an alternative energy source that would make oil irrelevant.
We know we are going to have to do it someday. Why not get a jump on the issue. I saw where China is spending ten times as much as the United States on developing solar power. And that is despite the fact that their GDP is still only about one third of the United States.
