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| Is fighting for oil a bad thing? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 21 2004, 01:24 PM (128 Views) | |
| gvok | May 21 2004, 01:24 PM Post #1 |
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We use oil to transport food, run factories and heat our homes. If oil was cut off tomorrow we'd likely be cold, starving and have no economy. Is preventing that outcome from happening through the use of military force such a bad thing? note: this post has been over simplified to illistrate a point. |
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| doctortobe | May 21 2004, 01:39 PM Post #2 |
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Speak softly, and carry a 57 megaton stick!
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It's going to happen anyway. Oil doesn't grow on trees, there is a limited supply of it. |
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| gvok | May 21 2004, 01:40 PM Post #3 |
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Unless a new technology is developed before that happens. |
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| Admiralbill_gomec | May 21 2004, 02:11 PM Post #4 |
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Actually, it does... but it isn't practical as a fuel (olive oil in particular)
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| ImpulseEngine | May 21 2004, 02:17 PM Post #5 |
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The context can change the answer. What are we told vs. what do we do? Define military force and against who? What other alternatives besides military force exist? . . . etc. |
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| gvok | May 21 2004, 02:51 PM Post #6 |
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Feel free to use the current context and the current accusations that the reason we are in Iraq "is for oil". |
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| Dwayne | May 21 2004, 03:05 PM Post #7 |
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Many major battles of World War 2 were over oil. The Battle of Stalingrad was an attempt by the NAZI's to take Russian oil. The Japanese attacked at Pearl Harbor, because the United States cut off Japan's oil. Any society wishing to perpetuate itself is obligated to secure the resources necessary for its existence. So ... in a nutshell ... heck no it's not a bad thing ... what's bad is how a nation gets that resource and what is done with that resource. The Germans and Japanese were willing to militarily conquer other nations to get that oil and were using it to further their military adventurism, whereas the United States is fighting to protect the free flow of oil to the open market. |
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| captain_proton_au | May 21 2004, 04:16 PM Post #8 |
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LOL, its funny that this topic has come up, now that gas prices are through the roof. |
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| Dr. Noah | May 21 2004, 04:37 PM Post #9 |
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Came up twenty five years ago, but was ignored then. |
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| somerled | May 21 2004, 10:57 PM Post #10 |
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Wait for it - the Islamophobes here will next claim those nasty oil rich Mulsim countries are attacking the USA by increasing oil prices and by reducing supply - as a punishment for the invasion of Iraq and as pay back for torturing and killing prisoners in Iraq. And Iraqi invasion had a great deal to do with gaining control of Iraqi oil and extablishing a USA friendly regime in that region. |
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| doctortobe | May 21 2004, 11:02 PM Post #11 |
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Hmmmm... let me thhinnk, no. |
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