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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread
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To: kumar who wrote (506)12/12/2002 7:33:15 PM
From: Hawkmoon   of 15987
 
Sometimes, by "walking away". example : British Empire from India.

I'm not adverse to that scenario either. But it will require that the US heavily invest and deply alternative energy infrastructure that doesn't involve dependence on middle eastern oil.

Because oil is the knife that the Arabs have pressed to the Western economic throat. Remove that knife and they have nothing but their own misery to wallow in.

But then it would be a matter of heavily restricting immigration and travel from the region. Both of which don't seem viable, or attractive solutions to the problem..

I see more correlations to Imperial Japan and what was required to alter it's culture in the post-World War II years.

But that would require all-out war, conquest, and rebuilding along western lines according to western value.

All at the cost of tremendous bloodshed on both sides.

Hawk
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