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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 370772" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px">BINGO!!!!!!!!!!</span></strong></p><p>Just Tired, the more I've read of this whole situation from across the board I've come to see this whole thing being very much what you said. I think if the terrorist act again in some organized form, it will be against the global oil supply because of it's economic impact. This has been most effective for them and it yeilds the most return with very little investment or energy on their part. </p><p> </p><p>We are so economically weak at this point that a major disruption in the global oil supply could pose a serious threat to our efforts to maintain our global military mission and to maintain the efforts in the Middle East. </p><p> </p><p>I read an article the other day about the economic problems the price of oil is even causing the military as well. Seems they hedge in similar fashion like we hear of UPS and they (US Mil.) have strategic reserves of course, but this thing is starting to effect them as well. We keep borrowing and borrowing on the backs of future Americans but at some point we become over extended if you will. The world is already fleeing the dollar as reserve currency whcih further hurts US and to the delight of the radical muslim.</p><p> </p><p>Of late I've been doing a lot of reading about late 19th century/early 20th century history as it relates to the retracting of 18th century classical liberal free markets, lassize-faire economics if you will, and the rise of old European merchantilism as the dominate economic force in America. A few years before Woodrow Wilson became President, April 1907' to be exact, he gave a series of lectures on his view of international affairs and trade. At Columbia University doing one of those lectures he made the following and IMO amazing comments as to his view on this matter. Highlighted area for effect.</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>source:"The Tragedy of American Diplomacy" by William Appleman William page 72 </p><p> </p><p>When I read that quote I could not believe my eyes. If there was ever an ideal so far in contrast to the founding principles and ideals that gave us this nation, if there was ever an ideal so opposite of the most basic of christian virtues and precepts, this was it. And the worse part of all, the above to a tee describes exactly what we have today as the guiding principle of our US foreign and international policy. What Wilson said above matches the Wilsonian policy of Global democracy which has dominated our own domestic and international policy since and it matches to a tee the idea of Anglo Empire that our forefathers fought to escape from 230 plus years ago. To borrow a Star Wars comparison, "Luke, I Am Your Father" or is it in reality "Luke, You've Become Your Father!" It's the Abused becoming the Abuser thingy. </p><p> </p><p>I say this in gest but at the same time a bit of serious note as well looking back at history. As a southerner and from the serious side, I know slavery was wrong and what we did to the eastern indian was wrong as well but looking from today's perspective of what we are and have become, we southerner's (the gest part but a bit serious part)should have gone west after the civil war and allied with the Apache and the Souix and fought the union with them. Had we defeated the Wilson world view mentioned above already at play, I believe we would be the better and a greater nation for it.</p><p> </p><p>But I've come to realize that the vast majority of Americans will not read, nor consider such ideas until the dominate media of the day (Fox, CNN, etc.) come out in a 30 second spin and tell them that it is so. America has forgotten (if they ever knew in the first place) Operation Mockingbird and what in the post Watergate era was discovered by the Church Committee because we're being conditioned with illogical, false fear to erase all trace of that today.</p><p> </p><p>Reading your post gives me real hope. Thanks.</p><p> </p><p>Diesel,</p><p> </p><p>My Good Friend. From one christian brother to another, may I offer you some adivice from the good book and the words of Jesus? I'll assume you said yes! <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/happy-very.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":happy-very:" title="Happy Very :happy-very:" data-shortname=":happy-very:" /></p><p> </p><p>Read the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew. Chapter 7 about how one is suppose to care for one's "PEARLS"!</p><p> </p><p>I've do doubt in my mind that you will appreciate what I'm saying,</p><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/wink.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":wink2:" title="Wink :wink2:" data-shortname=":wink2:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 370772, member: 2189"] [B][SIZE=7]BINGO!!!!!!!!!![/SIZE][/B] Just Tired, the more I've read of this whole situation from across the board I've come to see this whole thing being very much what you said. I think if the terrorist act again in some organized form, it will be against the global oil supply because of it's economic impact. This has been most effective for them and it yeilds the most return with very little investment or energy on their part. We are so economically weak at this point that a major disruption in the global oil supply could pose a serious threat to our efforts to maintain our global military mission and to maintain the efforts in the Middle East. I read an article the other day about the economic problems the price of oil is even causing the military as well. Seems they hedge in similar fashion like we hear of UPS and they (US Mil.) have strategic reserves of course, but this thing is starting to effect them as well. We keep borrowing and borrowing on the backs of future Americans but at some point we become over extended if you will. The world is already fleeing the dollar as reserve currency whcih further hurts US and to the delight of the radical muslim. Of late I've been doing a lot of reading about late 19th century/early 20th century history as it relates to the retracting of 18th century classical liberal free markets, lassize-faire economics if you will, and the rise of old European merchantilism as the dominate economic force in America. A few years before Woodrow Wilson became President, April 1907' to be exact, he gave a series of lectures on his view of international affairs and trade. At Columbia University doing one of those lectures he made the following and IMO amazing comments as to his view on this matter. Highlighted area for effect. source:"The Tragedy of American Diplomacy" by William Appleman William page 72 When I read that quote I could not believe my eyes. If there was ever an ideal so far in contrast to the founding principles and ideals that gave us this nation, if there was ever an ideal so opposite of the most basic of christian virtues and precepts, this was it. And the worse part of all, the above to a tee describes exactly what we have today as the guiding principle of our US foreign and international policy. What Wilson said above matches the Wilsonian policy of Global democracy which has dominated our own domestic and international policy since and it matches to a tee the idea of Anglo Empire that our forefathers fought to escape from 230 plus years ago. To borrow a Star Wars comparison, "Luke, I Am Your Father" or is it in reality "Luke, You've Become Your Father!" It's the Abused becoming the Abuser thingy. I say this in gest but at the same time a bit of serious note as well looking back at history. As a southerner and from the serious side, I know slavery was wrong and what we did to the eastern indian was wrong as well but looking from today's perspective of what we are and have become, we southerner's (the gest part but a bit serious part)should have gone west after the civil war and allied with the Apache and the Souix and fought the union with them. Had we defeated the Wilson world view mentioned above already at play, I believe we would be the better and a greater nation for it. But I've come to realize that the vast majority of Americans will not read, nor consider such ideas until the dominate media of the day (Fox, CNN, etc.) come out in a 30 second spin and tell them that it is so. America has forgotten (if they ever knew in the first place) Operation Mockingbird and what in the post Watergate era was discovered by the Church Committee because we're being conditioned with illogical, false fear to erase all trace of that today. Reading your post gives me real hope. Thanks. Diesel, My Good Friend. From one christian brother to another, may I offer you some adivice from the good book and the words of Jesus? I'll assume you said yes! :happy-very: Read the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew. Chapter 7 about how one is suppose to care for one's "PEARLS"! I've do doubt in my mind that you will appreciate what I'm saying, :wink2: [/QUOTE]
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