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To: Road Walker who wrote (279069)	3/8/2006 2:25:02 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1589121

JF, I'll just point out a few parts of your original post: The neocons have a goal of a New American Century, and their method is military dominance of the world. Great backdrop for a movie or TV show, but a little exaggerated in reality, don't you think? I get your point, though. Much of the Bush administration is still stuck in Cold War mentality, among other things. The right is probably much more "material decadent" than the left. And in the real (non-fundamentalist propaganda) world, conservatives are, on average, just as sexually decadent as liberals. People are people, regardless of their politics. So conservatives are hypocrites when it comes to material and sexual decadence, while liberals are apologetic or even proud when it comes to that. Either way, the result is the same. Middle Easterners look upon Western society as decadent. The Middle East is really none of our business, except for the business of oil. We are not chasing after Africa to embrace "modernism", because Africa doesn't have resources that we covet. We desperately need to get off foreign oil, so that we don't care about modernism in the middle east. We are certainly not there to modernize; we are there to secure our Achilles heel. Oil is often portrayed as a narcotic, but in reality it still is the best source of energy that we have. We can certainly learn to conserve and do with less, but in the end, the Middle East still controls vast reserves of the best energy source on this planet. And that's not going to change until we find an energy source that's even better. Or cripple our own economy and our lifestyles. Tenchusatsu