MissingLink wrote:We got guns and food and they got oil. We need the oil to make the fertilizer to grow the food. Not a good picture anyway it goes. Many of them do seem to hate us.
On 9/11 I was at a special training class on root cause analysis. I heard news about what was happening as I went to the class. During the class we took extra breaks so we could watch the news.
I distincely remember looking out the windows of the loby and seeing a woman dressed in a burka walk past the loby with a big grin on her face. She was smiling from ear to ear.
That picture and what it means sticks in my mind. They really do have a prejudice that is religiously ingrained.
dwenergyman wrote:It's already begun folks. We're just not being told the truth. Lester Brown contends that China will need US grain imports as bad as we need China to support our inflated dollar.
Pops wrote:Unless Old Man McCoy gets bumped off by one of the crazy youngun’s that oil will flow.
During the embargo the McCoys learned a lesson, when price rises dramatically, demand drops dramatically. They are just as hooked on the ol’ bubblin’ crude as the rest of the mountain and don’t want to upset the cart.
smiley wrote:Oh and about the gun part.
China has one gun, but its a really big one. It's called US-debt.
http://mondediplo.com/2003/10/09debt
If China sells their stake in US treasuries it would be like igniting an atomic bomb under the US-financial system. It would simply collapse in a matter of hours.
For that reason alone the US cannot afford itself to offend China by messing with their Mid-East affairs.
Leaf wrote:With the US policy of the Mid East most of those nations don't like the USA
Leaf
Leaf wrote:.They knew in 1971 the USA peaked and look what they did then.
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