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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1186849" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>1. 80% of the worlds oil flows thru the <em>Persian Gulf,</em> not the Red Sea. Egypt does not border the Persian Gulf, hence the instability in the country will have no effect on the oil flowing through there.</p><p></p><p>2. Any attempt by <em>any</em> nation (Iran) to try to block the outflow of oil thru the Persian Gulf will be crushed by the US Navy and allies in the region.</p><p></p><p>3. Violence and turmoil in the Middle East has being ongoing for many decades now. What has changed is that that colonialism by the British and French has ended, as well as Cold War-influenced meddling by the USA and the Soviet Union. The era of dictators being propped up (and torn down) by outside influences is coming to an end. We are seeing revolutions being initiated by <em>the people</em>, and the widespread use of the Internet, smart phones, Twitter, Skype etc. means that firsthand information about what is actually going on is freely available versus being controlled solely by government controlled media.</p><p></p><p>4. Extremism is extremism and terrorism is terrorism, <em>regardless</em> of the religious affilliation of those who practice it. 2 billion Muslims worldwide <em>didnt</em> kill anyone or blow anything up yesterday. There are Muslim nations such as Turkey and Indonesia that are powerful, stable, politically secular and allied with the United States. Blaming the entire religion on the actions of a few extremists makes about as much sense as assuming that the Ku Klux Klan or the Irish Republican Army represent mainstream Christianity.</p><p></p><p>5. The lines on the map of the Middle East werent drawn by the people who live there. Perhaps its time for them to be <em>redrawn</em>. And perhaps we need to just stay out of the way and let them figure it out like we had to do back in the 1860's.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1186849, member: 14668"] 1. 80% of the worlds oil flows thru the [I]Persian Gulf,[/I] not the Red Sea. Egypt does not border the Persian Gulf, hence the instability in the country will have no effect on the oil flowing through there. 2. Any attempt by [I]any[/I] nation (Iran) to try to block the outflow of oil thru the Persian Gulf will be crushed by the US Navy and allies in the region. 3. Violence and turmoil in the Middle East has being ongoing for many decades now. What has changed is that that colonialism by the British and French has ended, as well as Cold War-influenced meddling by the USA and the Soviet Union. The era of dictators being propped up (and torn down) by outside influences is coming to an end. We are seeing revolutions being initiated by [I]the people[/I], and the widespread use of the Internet, smart phones, Twitter, Skype etc. means that firsthand information about what is actually going on is freely available versus being controlled solely by government controlled media. 4. Extremism is extremism and terrorism is terrorism, [I]regardless[/I] of the religious affilliation of those who practice it. 2 billion Muslims worldwide [I]didnt[/I] kill anyone or blow anything up yesterday. There are Muslim nations such as Turkey and Indonesia that are powerful, stable, politically secular and allied with the United States. Blaming the entire religion on the actions of a few extremists makes about as much sense as assuming that the Ku Klux Klan or the Irish Republican Army represent mainstream Christianity. 5. The lines on the map of the Middle East werent drawn by the people who live there. Perhaps its time for them to be [I]redrawn[/I]. And perhaps we need to just stay out of the way and let them figure it out like we had to do back in the 1860's. [/QUOTE]
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