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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
BTW, does anyone really think our troubles with the Middle East and Radical Islam will magically disappear if we invent a car that runs on water? Everyone does realize that the "war" we're in is deeper than the oil issue, don't they? Yes, oil is part of it, but the larger issue is the fact that we're more globally intertwined than ever, and the enmeshing process with the Islamic World isn't so easy.

Think of how desperate and crazed the Islamists would become if we stopped buying oil tomorrow. Their economies would collapse, the royals would flee with all the money to Switaerland and Nice and we'd be left to establish relations with impverished Caliphates. In a sense, we're very lucky there's oil to keep these nations in running water, electricity and 70% literacy. Because from what I see, left to their basest devices, the Islamic Sector of the world would be one huge civil war of lunatic illiterate religious zealots.

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