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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction

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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (24363)1/1/2005 10:30:00 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
Ultimately, I think that what will work best is what works now, which is separation in a formal way into three states.
THat will work until their big neighbor, Iran, swallows them up... one by one.

As you point out the distribution of oil resources is not equal in the three regions, which could be the impetus for a power grab. Heck it was surely part of the impetus for the US to invade Iraq. That is evident from the writings of the administration members as members of the PNAC. Those hawkish positions, such as the oil will pay for the war, have morphed into a more politically palatable call to "bring democracy to Iraq", still underlay the fundamental reason for US presence in the Middle East...OIL.
If THAT'S the real reason, why didn't we pick a fight with Mexico?
1. It's a heqq of a lot closer.
2. It would have been a heqq of a lot easier to beat.
3. Insurgency? What insurgency? Judging from immigration patterns, all Mexicans want to be Americans anyway. Just make the Mexicans states US territories with the prospect of becoming full-fledged states.

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