Posted on 07/27/2006 6:07:16 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
In a recent article — Iran Reaches the Mediterranean I indicated that for Muslims, three cities of the Christian faith have particular significance: Jerusalem, Constantinople and Rome. The fall of Constantinople is described in detail in my earlier book, The Clash of Ideologies--The Making of the Christian and Islamic Worlds. Iran with its relations and support of Hamas and Hezbollah now has access to the Mediterranean and is the neighbor of Jerusalem. Italy was the first country from which Iran withdrew is funds.
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When the USA becomes energy efficient or if the world changes from oil to another energy source, IMO things will get much worse.
The Middle East produces nothing but a woman beating cult of homicide bombers. They really don't make anything, so there would immediately be starvation in that region on a grand scale.
I think every government there would topple with no or less oil need and radical Islam would rule the day there.
At that point it would be the whole world versus radical Islam and I think we could see up to a 50% death in the entire populations of the Middle East.
That is what I see happening when oil isn't valued that much or used too often in the future.
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