05-22-2008
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Secretary of State
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Location: AKRON
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Re: Oil hits $114/barrel - No end in sight.
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Originally Posted by underboss
So from this thread we learn that oil went from $20 before the war to $135 now and probably will hit $200 in a year.
Since this war has proven to be ruinous for American taxpayers, the fact that food prices have risen to levels where even in America - once the "bread basket of the world" has had to ration food, and that Americans are having a terrible time paying for gas, clothing, food, mortgages, etc....
Why would McCain want to continue this war that obviously is harming Americans? Why does he want 700 military bases in 130 countries when we cannot afford it? Especially since the war is making this country more insecure militarily and economically shouldn't we stop war and picking on Iran?
Why not save hundreds of billions of dollars a year by ending the war, reducing the American empire?
I'm sure the cowardly mainstream media doesn't have the balls to ask McCain - but anyone care to respond here? |
Th answer can be found in the STATE Department paper titled "FREEDOM FROM WAR" as well as the writings of Brzezinski.
Very few government documents are available at a government website from 1961, but this one is available. Why?
Freedom from War (1961)
BRZEZINSKI on Eurasia........
Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states. All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia. The world's most populous aspirants to regional hegemony, China and India, are in Eurasia, as are all the potential political or economic challengers to American primacy. After the United States, the next six largest economies and military spenders are there, as are all but one of the world's overt nuclear powers, and all but one of the covert ones. Eurasia accounts for 75 percent of the world's population, 60 percent of its GNP, and 75 percent of its energy resources. Collectively, Eurasia's potential power overshadows even America's.
Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's three most economically productive regions, Western Europe and East Asia. A glance at the map also suggests that a country dominant in Eurasia would almost automatically control the Middle East and Africa. With Eurasia now serving as the decisive geopolitical chessboard, it no longer suffices to fashion one policy for Europe and another for Asia. What happens with the distribution of power on the Eurasian landmass will be of decisive importance to America's global primacy and historical legacy.
A geostrategy for Eurasia by Zbigniew Brzezinski
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