tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post115817100789360371..comments2024-02-29T02:10:56.878-08:00Comments on J O S H U A P U N D I T: Watcher's Council nominations, 9/13/06Freedom Fighterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13649470110087808596noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-1158268743189633982006-09-14T14:19:00.000-07:002006-09-14T14:19:00.000-07:00Hi Nazar,I still see it differently, I'm afraid.If...Hi Nazar,<BR/>I still see it differently, I'm afraid.<BR/><BR/>If the US stopped imported Arab oil, we could sustian a price rise until our domestic production kicked in much better and easier than the Arabs could sustain themselves without the items I've mentioned...Plus, people like the Saudis need us and our arms to protect them from be hijacked and taken over.<BR/><BR/>But hey, who knows? Maybe you're right, and in any case we're unlikely to turnthe screws on them just yet.Freedom Fighterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13649470110087808596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-1158209826812972492006-09-13T21:57:00.000-07:002006-09-13T21:57:00.000-07:00Au contraire, my dear friend.Aside from food and m...Au contraire, my dear friend.<BR/><BR/>Aside from food and manufactured goods,which most of the Arab nations need to import, there are also the crucial spare parts for their infrastructure and weaponry..even their commercial airliners.<BR/><BR/>Reread my post on how Iran's economy (double digit inflaton, 30%+ unemployment)is faring without some of these things...and remember than one of the incentives offered Iran was a revamping of their oil industry (aging at runing at about 50% capacity, if that) and their domestic airliners.<BR/><BR/>No..they are economically stagnant and need us.Freedom Fighterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13649470110087808596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-1158190541145953422006-09-13T16:35:00.000-07:002006-09-13T16:35:00.000-07:00Oh, I agree, when it comes to the idea of forced c...Oh, I agree, when it comes to the idea of forced conversions. But I don't think she necessarily meant `forced', so much a s demanding the same tolerance and right to practice freedom of religon in say, Saudi Arabia as Muslims have in New York or Dearborn Michigan.<BR/><BR/>How many Saudis, Pakistanis and Iranians might just dump Islam if they could do it without a death sentence hanging over their heads?<BR/><BR/>As for the oil, it's important to remember that the entire Arab oil industry and the massive amounts of petro dollars they have used to promote jihad against the West was created using millions of dollars of `nationalized' (stolen) western property and facilities back in the 1970's.<BR/><BR/>They are barely capable of getting it out of the ground, let alone shipping it or refining it...Iran actually has a gasoline shortage, believe it or not.<BR/><BR/>I'd like to see the non-Muslim nations form cartels and trading groups for things like food, modern medicines and biotechnology and weaponry, with correspondingly high prices to offset the Arab's prices on crude...but that won't happen.<BR/><BR/>The key ting is the necessity of dewstroying the Jihadi Islamic mentality and eliminating the state havens and bases of jihadi war against the West. More on this later, I promise.Freedom Fighterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13649470110087808596noreply@blogger.com