Rant

30 years plus of public recognition of the utter folly of our oil dependence and oil import dependence and our political leadership has stayed the course; Arming thugs and degenerates and propping up puppets and murderers and creeps like the Sauds, rather than practicing conservation and developing new sources of energy. All the while supporting absurd, genocidal Israel to keep the whole Arab area inflamed, out of balance and from developing economic mechanisms to stop the stealing of oil resources.

But the fact is we can't have middle eastern oil - Saudi or Iraq's 7 million barrels a day or Iran's or otherwise - and continue to support Israel militarily and financially.

It has become clear the US cannot take control of middle eastern oil fields through military means, though I imagine Cheney and some others still would like to bomb Iran to smithereens to try, and US support of Israel and the feudal dictatorship in Saudi Arabia are some of the main things fueling the "terrorist threat," as Chimpy likes to call it.

Nor can we have middle eastern oil through this other system of doing bushiness with people who abuse their populations in order to get rich (Sauds, Shahs, Saddams etc).

And after what the Bush administration has done we may not be able to have middle eastern oil even if we back off from Israel.

There are plenty of customers for oil. China provides a nice market. So does the EU.

Things have changed. The US is drowning in debt and alienated from the world community.
Either we accept new terms or we are forced to support a state of permanent warfare against oil nations. In either case, American dominance is over IMO.

I loathe the Israeli government and also the Saudi monarchy and all the religious loonies of whatever stripe and all the go kill-kill nationalistic fucks on every side. The ruling family in Saudi Arabia could have done PLENTY about Palestine, had they wanted to. They'd rather smoke Cuban cigars with the Bush crowd.