http://www.janegalt.net/blog/archives/004969.html
The actual part I'm referring to is a bit down the page, a comment by Will Allen.
How's this for an interesting and unique take on the middle east? This theory states that Bush is protecting the Middle East and Arab countries, whereas Kerry is going to cause them all the be slaughtered. How does it work? You have one of the most backward people on Earth sitting on top of the largest known stores of one of the most important substances on Earth (oil), and they are becoming more and more violent towards other countries. Eventually they are going to really piss off someone with less restraint than the U.S., like China or Russia for instance, and they'll all get themselves blown away, slaughtered by the millions. Only reform can save them from this road, and only Bush is trying to give it to them.
Possible? Who knows, but it sure is an interesting idea.
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Damn it, Ben, the link's messed up! You put the http stuff in there twice.
Also, I searched the page for "Will Allen" and only came up with one comment, which had to do with oil supplies running out (but with very little political content).
Anyhoo, I don't quite get the argument that's made here. Why would the Arabs piss off China or Russia when they believe that America/Israel is their primary enemy? That just seems like vague speculation. If anything, the situation we're in is making everything more volatile, not less. We're feeding the idea that America is out to destroy the Muslim world, giving the extremist Muslims more pull in their own countries.
Incidentally, Iraq was one of the least "backward" of the Arab states. It was relatively secular and advanced.
Ummm... The link works, and the post is right there....
Why would a bunch of Arabs piss off Russia? Who knows, but they did it not long ago by killing all those people at that school in Breslan? Beslan? From what I've read, that was not just Chechnyan separatists, but also involved terrorists from middle east countries.
Wow, well I guess reform in Bush's eye's is by the sword....kinda like reform in Saddam's eyes
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