Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: carranza2 who wrote (121826)	12/18/2003 4:05:30 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

One could argue that if we were energy-independent, the ME mess would be a lot less significant since our interests would not be as severely impacted. No doubt.. But what about the rest of the world, most of which can't afford the newer alternative energy technology, or are too unreliable to entrust with nuclear technology? I wish it weren't true, but the reality is that the US economically depends upon the rest of the world, just as much as it depends upon us.. Most of the great nations are interlinked, with the remainder wishing (or working towards) such a vision for themselves. That means the Mid-East, which we've tried to ignore for so many years, has that much farther to come in order to participate. Again, I would recommend "Lexus and the Olive Tree" for the logic as to why globalization is the cause of, but also the solution to, much of the tension in the region today.. Bottom.. the Arabs KNOW they are falling farther and farther behind the rest of the world. And their current politico-economic systems are ill-prepared to resolve that. But then again, neither is Islamo-Fascism, but that's where many will look if they are abandoned to their fate by the rest of the world. Hawk