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Originally Posted by Moto-Mojo
Interesting that as we ween ourselves from foreign oil, the Middle East is coming apart at the seams. I said years ago that there would be hell to pay after we denied the Middle East our oil money by driving more "fuel efficient" cars and ruin their economy. Ironically, buying and driving extreme gas guzzlers and using OPEC may have prevented a few wars and made the world more stable. Imo.
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not really that. it's more that oil markets realigned. most Mideast oil not goes to Asia, north American oil to the US. what's screwed up the region was Bush, and mostly Obama, removing leaders over there. Brutal dictator he was, but he kept those people in check. that was bad enough, but was confined to Iraq. but then Obama comes along and throws aside leaders in Syria, Egypt, etc.
the Middle east may well be a case where simply have to have some sort of strong man running things to keep order.