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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: GST who wrote (111179)8/12/2003 8:48:03 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
You're not being realistic here, GST. We could (and should) do some work to lessen our dependence on Mideast oil. The key word is "lessen". As the global economy works, we cannot reduce it substantially or get rid of it altoger, and even if we did, allies and rivals of ours whom we need to be functional (like Japan and China, for instance) would remain dependent.

Globalization is happening apace, and nobody can stop it. When Thomas Friedman was once accused of being a cheerleader for globalization, he replied that being a cheerleader for globalization was like being a cheerleader for the dawn. It's going to happen whether you cheerlead it or not.

So we and everybody else are going to be buying Mideast oil for a long time. Buying commodities doesn't cause terrorism. If it did, we would be beset with terrorism in Latin America and Africa. Buying commodities may cause problems in the countries they are bought from, particularly if they are ruled as badly as most of the Mideast is, but terrorism isn't some sort of automatic response like the fizz you get when you mix acid and alkaline together; terrorism is an ideologically-driven response to those problems. Now since we didn't cause most of those problems to begin with, except by flooding the region with petro-dollars, it is not likely that terrorism was "caused" by us; it was caused by the problems native to the oil countries of the Mideast. Very likely the terrorism would have arisen just the same even if they sold all their oil to Europe and Japan.
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