The Growing Power of Petro-Islam

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  • Posted By: krismalmquist @ 01/16/2008 8:22:32 AM

    One thing for sure is that whoever our next president is will have his or her work cut out for them digging out of the huge hole that Boy King George has dug us into. What a joke! He says that he believes there will be a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians before his term ends. Yes, and pigs will fly over Mecca also.

  • Posted By: krismalmquist @ 01/16/2008 8:20:38 AM

    One thing for sure is that whoever our next president is, he or she will have their work cut out for them digging out of the huge mess that the Boy King George has dug us into. What a joke - he's gonna reach a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians before his term ends! And pigs will fly over Mecca also!

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 01/16/2008 3:44:01 AM

    If the Arabs did not have oil and own thirteen per cent of the U.S economy would we be in this situtation. Africa is in a state of chaos and genocide yet we do nothing. WHY. It is not profitable. Lets be honest. We know that the trade of nuclear material in eastern europe is the new trend. Yet we ignore the real threat and pusue Iran a country that is joke and can be annihilated in a second. We all know that Iraq is home to over twenty five secret bases in the dessert some the size of the Washington MALL. THE embassy in IRAQ looks like the VATICAN. THis is BIG BUSINESS. WHY aRE WE NOT pUNISHING THE pOWERS THAT GAVE IRAN NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. wHY DOES ISRAEL NOT BOMB THE SOURE. BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE pOWER TO BOMB BACK. iRAN IS NOT THREAT, THEY ARE A DESpERATE REGIME AND IN FACT ARE VERY WEAK. if THEY WERE STRONG THEY WOULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING. THEY CANNOT DO NOTHING. AMERICANS NEED TO WAKE Up AND UNDERSTAND THAT OUR GOVERNMENT HAS ITS OWN AGENDA.

    • Posted By: saudiy @ 01/16/2008 3:53:23 AM

      if the arabs didn,t have sycs-beeco treety they wouldn,t be in this setuation
      comeon be fare or at least more clever

  • Posted By: tdn0024 @ 01/15/2008 8:23:56 PM

    Michael,

    "This is no time to undermine the Arab regimes. It's important to rally them against Iran's nuclear program and to enlist them in supporting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process."

    Very disheartening.

    First, the Muslims are several hundred million, and deserve nukes.

    Second, if Bush weren't a fool, he'd simply show them a map with a crayon drawn around Muslim countries from Morrocco to Indonesia.

    He'd then explain that the US used to have an enemy called the USSR. Whose people got sick of it and overthrew it.

    And today, we have an enemy called the UMR...Union of Muslim Republics. As with the USSR, if they throw one single nuke our way, we will turn them into glass.

    Sticking the thorn of Israel into the Arab belly was a mistake: Christian Europe was the cause of Jewish problems in the 100 years before the 1946 -- not Muslim Arabia.

    It is the responsibility of Christians and Jews to solve the lingering issues of World War II, not Arabs.

    Your reasoning is pathetic.

    Look at your last name, and there is likely the answer.

    My friend, Christiains live far from their holy land.

    We Americans should welcome all Jews from Israel as US citizens, and let go of the folly we committed in 1948.

    The Jews are the most impressive society on Earth. The one minority that near always became educated, professional, familiar, wealthy ...despite horrific treatment in many countries. The minoriy that puts the lie to discrimination as a determinant of social conditions. The ninority that shows the power of education and familial love to overcome hardship and prejudice.

    But Michael, until you Jews can admit that you were also wrong to ask the British and Europeans to stick a thorn in the belly of the Arabs, you have no right to say that Bush needs to be friendly with dictators in support of the victors peace you and the US want to impose on Arabs.

    Just a bunch of desert? Ha! Watch Putin reach for just a bit of Alaskan wasteland, and see if America doesn't fight, fight, fight.

    America could, and should have welcomed the Jews it wanted to protect from more evil 60 years ago.

    Every day is a new chance to right this wrong. And take the thorn out of the Arabs side.

    Michael Hirsch, leadership from you and other US Jews is needed.

    The name of the country was to be Palestine. Give them full political control of the country. Jews should stay as a minority if you so choose.

    But please, stop advocating bad policy and telling yourself that you are thoughtful and just.



    • Posted By: saudiy @ 01/16/2008 2:05:49 AM

      i started to read your comment until i got to europe is the cause of jwish problem
      i knew what is your root but you are still talking as an american
      i said c boys didnet i
      not conspirecy boys ok?

  • Posted By: Lance Abrev @ 01/16/2008 12:22:30 AM

    It seems that GWB (and father) have developed a unique relationship with the head (s) of this desert dominion, and that that dominion has extended its long fingers for change throughout the world. The delicate posturing and exchange of passing diplomatic pleasures between these petro sherrifs, and former intelligence elite perhaps are coming to the end of a long popular series re-run. Where the new kids in town are yet to show their faces until the rerun indeed departs the theatre. The billing posters have been removed from the street front (OPECs intention to change the barrel's petrocurrency from the dollar, and America's love of the touring car and RecVehicles being an industry expectation downsized). Yet the longer it has run and still captured an applauding audience, the price for a ticket has inched up up and away.

    The next President must deal with the basic issues Hirsh has raised with a new foreign policy set with intentions not so far removed from its origins from a Representative Democracy, where, in Western Palestinian territory pure middle eastern lazze fare Democracy has cost an additional high projection room staff and equipment cost at the theatre. Not only were the Bush dream writers, once in full force at State out on strike on writing up this event, they had exited andexiled the theatre prior to its soon to be announced fire remnant sale: where only remaining soiled furniture would remain up for grabs.

    The fact is a new theatre has been constructed just across town, still in site of Mecca. It has means of crowd appeasement and crowd control, and it has substantially lowed the price of admission. The stage will bill the new cast as participant observers, though a little tainted as to mass appeal by a fringe group: a band calling themselves the culture of death. Funny thing though, its like piercing, everybodys' doing it.

  • Posted By: adirondack_1 @ 01/15/2008 11:09:37 PM

    Well put. On the political front, does the US bring the brand of diplomacy with Islam into the campaign so the Saudis get a chance to make some concessions to keep the bucks coming in?

  • Posted By: rr2023 @ 01/15/2008 10:53:14 PM

    Hirsh as always is full of sour grapes, it is clear he lacks judgement and objectivity, two key atributes in any good journalist. This is not the time to undermine friendly governments and not the US president's responsibility to oversee sovereign governments.

  • Posted By: saudiy @ 01/15/2008 10:18:04 PM

    the (c) boys can understand each other
    camels boys and cow boys see wisdom from thier history that they are proud of
    king abdullah and push have the same way of keeping kattles sound

  • Posted By: Canadilio @ 01/15/2008 4:42:18 PM

    blah blah blah...

    Its either blame the Neo Conservatives or blame the Saudis for war and terror in the world.

    Just maybe the issues are little more complex than you're 2 page analysis ?

    Personally im sick of journalists ranting without offering anything resembling a point.

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