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Originally Posted by spdrun
See my edited post. I realized that my anger at some brainwashed kid was misplaced.
We have no interests there any more, since if you believe our propaganda, we're a net oil exporter. Even if you look at import stats, only 16% of our imported oil comes from the Middle East. We could tighten our belts and reduce this # to zero inside of a year if we had the b@lls. This is a case of the military-industrial complex feeding off itself, corrupting government to support more wars, more troops abroad, more intervention, more "force projection." Basically, a giant corporate welfare program, where everyone other than the companies loses long-term.
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I don't know. Maybe he didn't want to get blown up by a ship he knows nothing about that is approaching him at high speed and refused warnings? I guess if that is brainwashed, perhaps he should let them ram him first and ask questions later. I suppose since you are so enlightened, you will let me advance on you in your own house after ignoring warnings to stand down and let me slit your throat before you protest? Really?
Product exporter. We don't have the fields of Saudi if I am reading it right. But if you think that just because we don't need the oil from that region, it cannot hurt us regardless, well, I don't know what to say about your impression.