Posted on 08/22/2006 1:02:24 AM PDT by 20mm lib babies in city dumps
Perhaps it's time to recolonize the Middle East. If we get our NATO allies and Russia together with us on the same page and invade the entire Muslim Middle East and re-establish European run colonial governments, we could save a lot of money on oil and put an end to government sponsored terrorism. Together, this alliance would have 90% of the world's military might. Without the mother's milk of oil revenue, it will be far more difficult fot terrorists to obtain the financing for nuclear weapon development or purchase. Russia could administer Iran, France could administer Syria, Britain could administer Egypt and Jordan, Italy could administer Lybia, and the US could administer Iraq and the Arabian peninsula. Western oil companies would run the oil fields and all financial/political power would be denied to radical muslims. Maybe in the next century that area might be ready for independence. In the meantime, bring back the colonies.
Wow, I'm impressed when someone comes up with an original idea.
The Middle East isn't worth the trouble. I don't know if you've been there, but it's nowhere I'd want to colonize. Most of it is general wasteland, whereas some garden spots, like Qatar, looks like the surface of Mars. Once you get north of Baghdad it's pleasent enough, if you like the Iowa-Nebraska kinda look.
Still, I'm all for the alternate fuel Manhattan project. I'd rather spend 500 billion on that than to keep bombing the place. Once the oil stops fueling their economies, they'll fall back on their second most lucrative industry, which appeared to me to be sheepherding. Shortly thereafter, the entire region will become as important as Tanzania, and we'll never hear from them again.
The only time all those countries will be on the same page will be at the end of times. Not a bad plan though.
Your ad hominom comments aside, the Russians would be able to be enlisted precisely because of their irritation with the Chechans, and it is a good point that Japan could also be enlisted.
Thank you
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