Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
Posted on 01/31/2011 3:23:20 PM PST by dynachrome
If free passage through the canal were threatened, would you favor or oppose U.S. military action to keep it open?
Oppose – Rather than put Americans in harm’s way, let’s once and for all make the U.S. independent of foreign oil.
Undecided – I’m concerned about what effect a closed Suez would have on our economy, but I’m not sure I’d want to risk American lives.
Favor – We must not let this strategically important route fall into the wrong hands. Do whatever is necessary to keep it open.
Other (post your comment).
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No need to spend volunteer lives in raghead nations. Make DemoRat Marxists have to bring back the draft, let's make Rats REALLY popular with their base, and spend the leftist entitlement urban conscripts lives over there.
It might not be. As far as oil goes, the largest tankers can't use the Suez Canal. You ask the right question, IMO.
Some 5 million barrels of oil pass through the canal every day but I doubt much of that is coming to America.
This is not a well thought out question. We don’t get that much of our oil from the Middle East (about 12 percent) thru the Suez Canal. Our imported oil supplies come from Canada, Venezuela, and Mexico, with lesser amounts from Nigeria, Algeria, Ecuador, and England. The result of the Suez Canal closing will be financial: it will drive the cost of oil through the roof. Are we going to be happy paying $5 to $7 a gallon for gasoline (with the accompanying increase in the price of everything else, beginning with food)? That is the question. And we are not, what are we willing to do about it. As far as the actual supply of oil goes, if the Suez Canal is closed down, the Europeans will be feeling the pain.
How dangerous is it to send U.S. Navy ships through the Suez Canal. Are the ships slow moving targets in a restricted space? Are there any navy vets out there who can explain.
I don’t trust Obama being in charge of our military. I won’t vote for military action until we have an American leading the forces. They are not Kenyna’s sacrifical lambs.
Sounds like a job for China. It’s mostly their goods being transported in these days. Someone stated a few days ago that today’s tankers won’t fit through the Suez. Don’t know if there’s truth to that. But I think Americans will begin to demand that we drill at home.
How about NATO - keeping the Suez Canal open will benefit Europe especially.... let them step up to the plate.
Yes, if we could supply our own oil with Canada in North America, why mess with the Opec cartel. Let them keep their own oil flowing around their Mulsim brothern.
If we can do without their oil and not crash our economy with shortages... Obama would have to lead that plan. That is a big if.
Why exactly is it that the federal government is so entrenched in the oil industry? Where in the constitution does it say they are supposed to regulate fuel? Does it say they are supposed to stick their nose in and regulate wood, coal and other fuels somewhere? Why do we just accept that the federal government is supposed to lead the way on the fuel we use?
Why do we just accept such intervention into our lives as a given? Why can't we reject this and change it?
“nuclear-tipped Tomahawks”
maybe a ‘cordon sanitaire’ as the French proposed in Indo-China at one time.
NO NO-\\
NUKE THERE NUKE NOW
Yup. I'm voting to stay out of the way. I'm tired of the US being the cop. Let the UN deal with this. Gas prices here will skyrocket, Obama will drain the strategic oil reserve which will be empty in about a month, prices will still be high, and we'll be in gas lines and rationing.
Why exactly is it that the federal government is so entrenched in the oil industry? Where in the constitution does it say they are supposed to regulate fuel? Does it say they are supposed to stick their nose in and regulate wood, coal and other fuels somewhere? Why do we just accept that the federal government is supposed to lead the way on the fuel we use?
Why do we just accept such intervention into our lives as a given? Why can't we reject this and change it?
And coal to beef up the CO2 in the air. We need it to prevent the Ice Age.
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