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We need to get off this and Carter was the first to really push for alternative energy development. So here we are 30 years later and we are little farther ahead. We have crude wind energy, crude solar and no national plan to deal with how we transport our goods and people. When we disbanded the rail system we helped seal our dependency on roads as the way to move goods and people.
Read this overview of the middle east and the role that the British played in Iran and Iraq and it also details the CIA's involvement in putting the Shah into power in Iran.
http://www.doublestandards.org/everest2.html
Given these constraints, the U.S. opted to work through Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, whose secular nationalist regime was ideologically and politically threatened by Iran’s Islamic revolution (including because 60 percent of Iraq’s population were Shi’ites who were oppressed under Saddam's rule). In the spring and summer of 1980, the U.S. encouraged an Iraqi attack on Iran (possibly including via a direct meeting between Hussein and either Brzezinski or high-level CIA agents in Jordan). On September 22, 1980 Iraq invaded southwest Iran.
Brzezinski's was the conduit from Rumsfeld and the CIA, Bush Sr., directly to Saddam.
These Reagan backers (including many who would be leading neocon hawks in George W. Bush’s administration) feared that if Carter won the hostages’ release he would win re-election. So they worked to make sure this didn’t happen. Over the summer of 1980, Reagan’s top advisors made a secret agreement with the Islamic Republic: if Iran continued to hold the hostages through November’s election and Reagan won, he would lift the economic sanctions imposed by Carter and allow Israel to ship arms to Iran. Former Carter official Gary Sick called it “nothing less than a political coup.”
The whole article will give you much more understanding of the reasons why the U.S. and Britain are responsible for the chaos in that region and around the world. It is all about the control of resources.
If OPEC cuts production you can expect lines at the pumps and runaway inflation. The oil companies will seize the opportunity to raise prices to keep profits up. This on top of the financial collapse is what waits for Obama and there is no doubt in my mind that the Republicans will pound home both issues as being his miscalculations and his inexperience. We know McCain/Palin would simply invade to guarantee the profits for the top 1%. This is a chance for the U..S. to get off the oil tit and even if it is more expensive let the Arabs eat their oil.
the arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back!
it is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! it is ecological balance!
and on that line, who's put in stakes in wall street of late ?? just askin'
Read the following link:
http://www.geoexchange.org/
Do these people talk because they like the sound of their own voices? That statement from the Algerian Princess means nothing to me. That's like saying, "If there's three Toyota's in my driveway then there's three Toyota's in my driveway." WTF?
Apparently, the billionaires in bedsheets want Obama too. Well, just a few more days of heinous economic news, and the Republican Party can be declared officially dead. Now, about that socialism... Oh, and let's hope Barack has his own hand-picked men on his Secret Service detail. Or gas prices might never go down.
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They are making poor economic decisions.