[Texas Eagle]

Which explains why Preezy Obola opposes oil exploration and production here in America.

[stinkerpot65]

Even with oil, they can’t do that for themselves. They have to have Americans or Europeans come in and do the drilling, build refineries, etc.

Muslims are abject failures at everything except murder.

[Uncle Miltie]

Islam does produce murder, terror, war, slavery, misogyny, child rape, and poverty.

So it’s not completely without accomplishments.

[SMARTY]

As I always say: If you take 50% of the population (females) OUT of the decision making process, your country will remain poor, backward, violent and vulnerable.

[Skooz]

bfl

[I want the USA back]

There are two major victim groups that practice hatred and live in substandard conditions. Both hate non-members. Both try to excuse their self-inflicted pathologies on non-members. Both practice a culture of anger, hatred and non-acheivement. Both are pitied and coddled by the left.

[The Great RJ]

Consider why the US went from backwoods agrarian colonies to a world super power. It has everything to do with individuals having the freedom to pursue their dreams. We were the first nation of entrepreneurs. Look at the wealthy Arab states..they are all repressive societies where anything that some religious nut job might think is an insult to Islam is a crime

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

It's important to note that the Arab world is *dying*. This all began during the 11th-12th Century with one man, who is today regarded as the second most influential Muslim after Mohammed himself. Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī, better known as just Al-Ghazali or Algazel. He was a Persian scholar, which matters because Persia was intensely xenophobic, and this profoundly influenced him. He started by becoming very learned in classical Greek texts, before deciding that ALL knowledge outside of the Koran and its commentaries was false and just led men astray from their faith. That is, he was the first Muslim fundamentalist. His influence spread like metastatic cancer from Persia outward. And enormous destruction of scholarship, knowledge and learning followed in its wake. It took a while, of course, for Muslims to abandon secular learning and regress to a more primitive state, with the last gasp being the great libraries built in Muslim Spain, which they abandoned when they were forced to leave by the Christian Spanish. Which benefited the Spanish and Christendom immensely. Since then, the ummah has been paradoxical. That is, when Mohammed set up Islam, it was far more civilized than the barbarism that surrounded it. So it claimed the mantle of civilization and progress, which quickly petered out, because Mohammed had made the mistake of mandating technologies that soon became outdated. But more educated Muslims were able to work around this until al-Ghazali put an end to progress of any kind. The paradox is that Muslims still pretend that Islam is more civilized than, well, civilization, even though it runs circles around Islam's primitivism. It's been all downhill from there, punctuated with severe drops in recent times, from the likes of Wahhab (1703–1792), who created the extremely fundamentalist movement Wahhabism as a reaction to far more advanced and civilized European Christians, and then again with the Salafist movement in the latter half of the 19th Century. And these violent swine are not just barbaric, but demand primitivism to the point of acting like troglodytes, or violent chimpanzees. On the plus side, barbarism cannot coexist with civilization, and unless it can annihilate civilization, barbarism always loses. The reason for this is that unless barbarian leaders brutally force their subjects to remain on the side of barbarism, they will invariably "vote with their feet" to become civilized, because even uneducated people can eventually figure out that civilization is better. The last hope the Arab world had was in overpopulation forcing them on others. But even that is petering out, because few Arabs want more than two kids today. So there birthrate is stabilizing. Which will mean dropping, because they are an unhealthy lot. You know, medical science being bad and all. It's much better to fight infection through prayer and using a Koran as a pillow.

[353FMG]

The Arab world is mainly a Muslim world.

No further explanation required.

[Ozark Tom]

Compare how much grain they import also, and where it originates. Their economies now depend on high oil receipts to subsidize their populations and retain stability. Anything to jeopardize shipping into the area could induce famine, a known factor to initiate civil warfare. Their own efforts feed only 25-50% of population.

AS an example, in recent years the Saudis floated a food purchase loan to Egypt, which had lost its tourist income. A population pegged at 84 million, self supporting 40 million with modern enhancements, but only able to subsistence farm for 4 million in the worst case scenario.

Not everyone has a Nile delta to work with thus are more dependent on the oil for food exchange to maintain control. Even the JV cannot rule effectively long term facing a starving populace, but in the short term could increase their support by favoritism.

In current news grain mills and storage were hit in air strikes recently, and though reported as mistaken targeting... I tend to wonder.