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2006-11-27 International-UN-NGOs

Decline and Fall - How not to act like a great power

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-27 08:58|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Take the oil. End the problem.

Posted by Excalibur 2006-11-27 11:03|| 2006-11-27 11:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Yep. The notion that if we stop buying it the shit will end is simply stupid - someone else (e.g. China) will take up any slack. There is only one answer, take the funding sources away from the crazies.

Just imagine if any other country had the US Military (Forget the ethics we impose, think: resources, budget, technology, and training) at its disposal, what would they do with it?

Lol. A challenge: country by country, can the RB denizens offer any guesses?

Posted by .com 2006-11-27 11:10|| 2006-11-27 11:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Just imagine if any other country had the US Military (Forget the ethics we impose, think: resources, budget, technology, and training) at its disposal, what would they do with it?

Solve the Jewish problem once and for all!

Posted by Proud EUropean 2006-11-27 11:16|| 2006-11-27 11:16|| Front Page Top

#4 The pre-1941 US fit most of the "no great power" items in this list yet I think few would say a decade later that the US wasn't a Great Power.

Posted by rjschwarz 2006-11-27 11:25|| 2006-11-27 11:25|| Front Page Top

#5 EUrope isn't a country. Sheesh. It's a holding pen for previously Islamic and Middle Kingdom lands, lol.

Posted by .com 2006-11-27 11:27|| 2006-11-27 11:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Reminds me of a concept someone close to Rantburg once advocated, about a 50 km wide strip of sand on the west side of the Persian Gulf ....

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-11-27 12:10|| 2006-11-27 12:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Ancient history, lol. I'll bet 60% (or greater) have never heard of The Republic of Eastern Arabia. Hmmm, I wonder who came up with that name... wasn't me... ;-)

Posted by .com 2006-11-27 12:20|| 2006-11-27 12:20|| Front Page Top

#8 BTW, as happens with most everything else over time, lol, that strip seems to be expanding in width... IIRC, it started out as 30km, lol.

Posted by .com 2006-11-27 12:21|| 2006-11-27 12:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Oops, it was 40... so in the 3 intervening years it's only gained 10km, lol.

Posted by .com 2006-11-27 12:28|| 2006-11-27 12:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Just like the rest of us, lol.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-11-27 12:35|| 2006-11-27 12:35|| Front Page Top

#11 I'd annex the Sudetenland and sign a nonagression pact with Russia...

Lol!

Posted by Mark E. 2006-11-27 13:36|| 2006-11-27 13:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Question for you all: How much of our oil in percentage do we get from the Arabs? A relative of mine said it is about 25% of our total oil. I thought the number was higher. I know some of you on the 'Burg are much more a tuned or have worked in the oil sector. What's the real deal?

Posted by Broadhead6 2006-11-27 13:47|| 2006-11-27 13:47|| Front Page Top

#13 Top 15 countries

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-11-27 14:03|| 2006-11-27 14:03|| Front Page Top

#14 Oh, and to clarify, the US only produced domestically 40-45% of its needed supplies.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-11-27 14:04|| 2006-11-27 14:04|| Front Page Top

#15 Oil is a fungible commodity, so it doesn't really matter where specifically our oil comes from; the fact that we use any at all keeps it "scarce" and affects prices....

Posted by Mark E. 2006-11-27 15:45|| 2006-11-27 15:45|| Front Page Top

#16 Yah, we are catering to Muslims. That is, we are subordinating Western life to accomodate savages who aspire to work as taxi drivers. The West needs Muslims like we need the AIDS virus.

Posted by Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-11-27 17:52|| 2006-11-27 17:52|| Front Page Top

#17 #12 - As long as anyone in the world buys oil, the sellers of oil can make money from them, don't matter where it's produced or where it's consumed, as long as the oil gets to where it's wanted, and the money gets back to where it's produced.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-11-27 22:37|| 2006-11-27 22:37|| Front Page Top

#18 Wonder what happen if Persian Gulf oil fields were Dr Strangeloved

Posted by gromgoru 2006-11-27 23:02|| 2006-11-27 23:02|| Front Page Top

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