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Gold/Mining/Energy : PEAK OIL - The New Y2K or The Beginning of the Real End? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Doug R who wrote (609)	5/24/2005 11:34:40 PM
From: Mahatmabenfoo	Respond to of 1183

"the armed forces of the United States were committed only to our country's legitimate defense interests, these vast expenditures could be attributed to some combination of realistic defense concerns, paranoia and vested interests" That has always been the mystery and the sadness as long as I can remember, and I'm 51. Lookit, the generation that came out of WWII was understandably looking over their shoulders wondering when the tanks would roll in. The DID roll in to Hungary in 1956, and when did Prague Spring get crushed? I'm also old enough to recall Kruschev wacking his shoe on a UN podium declaring "We will bury you!" But whatever the reasons (rational in a miltary sense, or irrational, or rational in the sense corruption, greed and lust are at least comprehensible) I've wonder since we helped contribute to 1,000,000 Vietnamese casualties whether all that bomb money might not have been better spent on cross-national subways or inventing edible ink blot or fusion power or improving the color red, or, you know, just nothing and everybody just does less and leaves more oil for other people to burn up and blow up. sorry late I'm tired and more rambling than usual... - Charles