Originally Posted by
blake
Fair enough, behemoth was over simplifying. The Sunni militias are not going to control anything, hillbillies are a pretty fair description.
The long term solution to Saudi power is to not use oil as a primary fuel source. In would be in our national security interest to take a couple of hundred billion away from the pentagon and put it towards developing alternative fuels, but it's too hot button politically. Troops in the region is a stop gap.
And the alternative fuels we develop, CANNOT BE CORN BASED. Fucking rubes and their E85. You know when that shit comes out before they put the additive in, it's moonshine. Listen guys, we need to stay the fuck out of other people's countries and business. We need to worry about our own shit and stop fucking with other people. Why do you think we made up with Cuba? So Gare could smoke his cigars again? We did it to have a 90 mile buffer from our coast. Guaranteed that we have a navy down there in the next year or so "on maneuvers" 24/7.
We're "friendly" with many countries who regularly fuck their civilized people who fuck their people in the ass. Why get involved with people who live in mud huts and raise goats? We need to worry about Mexico way more than we need to worry about people 10k miles away.
And yeah, gold...pfftt...you think if we ever had a major crisis people are going to openly trade a shiny coin for food to feed their families? I don't think so. GET REAL WITH YOUR LIVES RUBES.
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