Reply #30: Bob, they are indeed "both insane and ruthless" [View All]

[Petrodollar Warfare]

The Bush admistration the necocons are using the major card that we hold - US military power - as a "solution" to an economic and geostrategic challenges. They will ultimately fail, but they and their friends in the military-industrial-petroleum conglomerate will certainly enrich themselves in the process.

So, while I appreciate all the information revealed in this original post, the issues of energy and currency are rarely discussed at the level needed to fully understand the scope of the issues that are driving the neocons to the current level of ruthlessness. On the otherhand, I do not blame them for this mess, as the dollar issues began under Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam war, and "dealt with" by Nixon in 1971.

As for the slowlt unfolding US energy crisis, President Carter tried to inform/warn us, but we rejected his sombering lectures for Reagan's "morning in America" rhetoric. Sadly and tragically for the dead Americans and Iraqis over the past 19 months, we as a nation hit the "snooze button" from 1981 to the present day.

Well, here's 2 items to review for individuals such as yourself who are in the "reality-based community."

'The Real Reasons Why Iran is the Next Target:
The Emerging Euro-denominated International Oil Marker'
October 27, 2004
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CLA410A.html

...and why the uniquely American development of "suburbia" is fundamentally flawed....

THE END OF SUBURBIA: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream
http://www.endofsuburbia.com/

http://www.endofsuburbia.com/reviews.htm

...While you and I are currently in the minority, I predict the "reality-based community" will expand tremendously by the end of this decade...but I will not predict the outcome of this rude awakening.