it looks like we are going to be involved with things Arabic for a long time.
Not to come off sounding like Ed Begley jr., but if we had an alternative fuel source, like solar, we could let that festering hell hole that is the arab world sink back into it's petty tyrannies and total irrelevance. Little more than apes for the Israelis to keep in line.
(Actually, that second part doesn't sound much like Ed Begley jr. at all, does it?)
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
You know that C Columbus' great goal was not to find a sea route to the Orient just for the heck of it, but to cut the bedouins out of a lucrative and dangerous set of trade routes to India. It happened, too, even if it wasn't Columbus hinself that did it, and the ME was out of business for a few centuries. Oil brought them back, and with all the same old irritations.