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<blockquote data-quote="diesel96" data-source="post: 313896" data-attributes="member: 9859"><p>Playing the blame game are we ? It's all the Democrats fault? I'll admit Dems. are just at fault except for one shortcoming, they are not the party in power, nor did they do enough to change policies this Republican ruled administration administered. Seems like someone doesn't want to take any responsibility for their party and deflect all negativity with your Superman-Reagon teflon cape. The point of the post was the president should of been aware of the cost of a gallon of gasoline and is doing nothing about it but "stay the course" and keep the "status quo".</p><p>So before you and GW support the inheritance of insermountable trillion$ of debt to our children or start drilling holes off the coast of my state severly jepordizing our tourism industry and destroying a fragile eco-system with a catistrophic oil spill due to Hurricanes or tanker accidents take into account our turmultuous presence in the middle east spurned on by this administration. One only needs to look in the mirror to reveal simplistic answers to controversial questions.</p><p> </p><p>Our invasion removed Iraq as a reliable supplier of oil to world markets. And still hasn't fully recovered. Our threats to bomb Iran have added to regional instability and uncertainty, and led to additional rises in oil and gas prices. Recent polling data shows that we are now seen by the region's peoples as the greatest threat, not the greatest contributor, to its security. </p><p> </p><p>By pursuing a one sided course, rather than organizing our allies, friends, and other nations who have a stake in the secure flow of energy to assist us in maintaining order and stability in the region, we have put ourselves in the position of being held accountable for anything and everything that may go wrong there. We have also chosen to give everyone else a free ride on our unilaterally assumed responsibility for the security of the world's energy trade. As a consumer nation, we share interests with other major oil and gas importers, including newly emerging importers like China and India. </p><p> </p><p>Instead of making common cause with them we have chosen to deal with oil and gas producers through uncoordinated bilateral relationships or, in the case of Iran and Sudan, non-relationships. This has compounded the incoherence of our domestic energy policy, leaving us with no policy response to rising energy prices, no strategy for future energy security, no commitment to conservation. </p><p> </p><p>Meanwhile, next door in the Holy Land, it has been years since we made a serious effort to promote negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians or even exercised our own judgment about the issues that divide them. Rather, we have supported the efforts of a series of right-wing Israeli governments to undo the Oslo accords and to pacify the Palestinians rather than make peace with them. So much land has been colonized by Israel that there is not enough left for a viable Palestinian state alongside Israel; too little, because what is on offer looks to Palestinians more like an Indian reservation than a country. Such status will not be accepted by the inhabitants of the occupied territories; nor will it be accepted by the six-to-seven million- strong Palestinian original inhabitants. This simply inflames rather than relieves Arab/Muslim/Islam resentment of Israel and the US. This cannot lead to normalization of Israel's relations with other Arab states.</p><p> </p><p>American policies in the Middle East, more than anywhere else, account for the dramatic fall in our prestige around the globe not to mention the drop of our dollar, and yes the price of a barrel of oil. The new world of the 21st century is being shaped by events there and our role in them. The Middle East - except in its own estimation - has long been the nerve center to global politics, and now global markets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="diesel96, post: 313896, member: 9859"] Playing the blame game are we ? It's all the Democrats fault? I'll admit Dems. are just at fault except for one shortcoming, they are not the party in power, nor did they do enough to change policies this Republican ruled administration administered. Seems like someone doesn't want to take any responsibility for their party and deflect all negativity with your Superman-Reagon teflon cape. The point of the post was the president should of been aware of the cost of a gallon of gasoline and is doing nothing about it but "stay the course" and keep the "status quo". So before you and GW support the inheritance of insermountable trillion$ of debt to our children or start drilling holes off the coast of my state severly jepordizing our tourism industry and destroying a fragile eco-system with a catistrophic oil spill due to Hurricanes or tanker accidents take into account our turmultuous presence in the middle east spurned on by this administration. One only needs to look in the mirror to reveal simplistic answers to controversial questions. Our invasion removed Iraq as a reliable supplier of oil to world markets. And still hasn't fully recovered. Our threats to bomb Iran have added to regional instability and uncertainty, and led to additional rises in oil and gas prices. Recent polling data shows that we are now seen by the region's peoples as the greatest threat, not the greatest contributor, to its security. By pursuing a one sided course, rather than organizing our allies, friends, and other nations who have a stake in the secure flow of energy to assist us in maintaining order and stability in the region, we have put ourselves in the position of being held accountable for anything and everything that may go wrong there. We have also chosen to give everyone else a free ride on our unilaterally assumed responsibility for the security of the world's energy trade. As a consumer nation, we share interests with other major oil and gas importers, including newly emerging importers like China and India. Instead of making common cause with them we have chosen to deal with oil and gas producers through uncoordinated bilateral relationships or, in the case of Iran and Sudan, non-relationships. This has compounded the incoherence of our domestic energy policy, leaving us with no policy response to rising energy prices, no strategy for future energy security, no commitment to conservation. Meanwhile, next door in the Holy Land, it has been years since we made a serious effort to promote negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians or even exercised our own judgment about the issues that divide them. Rather, we have supported the efforts of a series of right-wing Israeli governments to undo the Oslo accords and to pacify the Palestinians rather than make peace with them. So much land has been colonized by Israel that there is not enough left for a viable Palestinian state alongside Israel; too little, because what is on offer looks to Palestinians more like an Indian reservation than a country. Such status will not be accepted by the inhabitants of the occupied territories; nor will it be accepted by the six-to-seven million- strong Palestinian original inhabitants. This simply inflames rather than relieves Arab/Muslim/Islam resentment of Israel and the US. This cannot lead to normalization of Israel's relations with other Arab states. American policies in the Middle East, more than anywhere else, account for the dramatic fall in our prestige around the globe not to mention the drop of our dollar, and yes the price of a barrel of oil. The new world of the 21st century is being shaped by events there and our role in them. The Middle East - except in its own estimation - has long been the nerve center to global politics, and now global markets. [/QUOTE]
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