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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (273845)2/2/2010 11:50:30 AM
From: SARMAN  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Who are you kidding? Most of these Arab states would not exist today were it not for the efforts of the West. The west defeated their imperial Ottoman masters and gave them the opportunity to unite.
Wow, keep your pants on Hawk. That was not the question. Look at your contradiction in you statement. How could partitioning be a uniter?

And were it not for our technological advances, there would have been none of the machinery available that is required to drill for water (which is what the Saudis were ORIGINALLY looking for), not to mention oil.
Did they pay for it? They payed for it with treasure and blood.

It was American, British, and French technology that gave these Arab countries the ability to exploit their natural resources.
We did not do it because we like them, we did it because of cheap energy.

And ultimately, what they received in exchange were efforts to forcibly nationalize their businesses and seize their assets.
Of course, wouldn't have done the same? The key word exploit. The west did not only exploit the resource but also the people. Corporation never pay their fair share, that holds true everywhere in the world.

Kind of like Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. And look at his economy now.
They are better off than before.

I stand by my statement "The Arab countries that you talk about did not get a handout, thus, we did not give it to them." These countries bought our goods and it was not charity, we are getting cheap energy out of them.
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