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Bedouin Darkness Spreads With Oil Money

Submitted by Barry E Lerner, Dec 11, 2007 23:26

This assessment is spot-on accurate. The Arabs can mount this challenge to the West only through the accident of their living atop a natural resource, a resource that they have neither the technology to extract nor the wherewithal to refine. They have created no significant society, no industrial complex, no real economy. They exist only through income from oil extortion.

Mr. Ibrahim's analysis, while correct, does not take the next logical step, to wit: what do we do about this? My suggestion is that we consider threatening say, Saudi Arabia, with confiscation, that is, we offer them an ultimatum, that they either return the price of oil to, for example, $30 a barrel, or we move in and take over the oil fields. Will the Saudis refuse? Will we have to actually do this? I don't know, but in the uncertain world of prediction, I can assure you of one thing: if we do nothing, we will surely perish, whereas if we do something, we have a chance at survival.

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This assessment is spot-on accurate. The Arabs can mount this challenge to the West only through the accident of their...	Barry E Lerner	Dec 11, 2007 23:26
SAS, Do you dispute the facts contained in the editorial? Do you think there are untruths quoted? I have gone back... [MORE]	Fayettebill	Dec 9, 2007 07:41
wasnt it a couple of princes of the sheik of UAE who were standing next to binladen, and therefore the... [MORE]	betsy ross	Dec 8, 2007 16:41
I wrote the following letter to the editor criticising the decision of the New York Sun to print this sickeningly... [MORE]	SAS	Dec 8, 2007 08:59
Having spent some time in the region, I can attest that there are many decent people there. The people are... [MORE]	Miriam Mendelson	Dec 4, 2007 07:17
Mr Youssef's article shows that the importance of using the exponential wealth of the oil markets to promote wind and... [MORE]	Vinbeazel	Dec 3, 2007 00:39
Dear Editor, It's absolutely shocking and alarming for the Western culture to be exposed to the kind of hatred Mr.... [MORE]	Khalid AlSaeed	Nov 30, 2007 05:14
Mr. AlSaeed does not dispute any of the facts stated by Mr. Ibrahim. Instead he objects to Mr. Ibrahim finding... [MORE]	OMNIA21	Dec 1, 2007 07:46
Mr. Youssef's article is a shining light in our dark "politically correct democracy." Over 35 million Moslems have invaded Europe.... [MORE]	Satirical psychic	Dec 5, 2007 15:03
I just cannot believe what you guys at the NYSUN publish. This amateurish racist by the name of Youssef Ibrahim... [MORE]	John Doe	Nov 30, 2007 01:45
On the one hand, one could hope that all this foreign investment in our companies by Greater Arabia would finally... [MORE]	Scott Baker	Nov 29, 2007 14:14
This is not Bedouin darkness, but, in reality is the Wahhabi darkness as written by their self proclaimed prophet Mohammed.... [MORE]	Gene	Nov 29, 2007 09:39
Gene, I wont comment on your Islamophobic rant, but I have to point out that Arabs did not praise Hitler... [MORE]	Nahla	Dec 11, 2007 03:08
In exchange for their oil, the United States sends about half a trillion dollars to the Middle East every year.... [MORE]	Bill Dienstag	Nov 29, 2007 05:25
Even worse, since they never have to work hard, they actually come to believe they are blessed by God, not... [MORE]	Scott Baker	Nov 29, 2007 19:13
I am shocked to think that this kind of overt racist incitement finds itself on the pages of a supposedly... [MORE]	SAS	Dec 8, 2007 08:44
The contents of the article needs a greater in depth knowledge of Islam and its successes and failures. Islam spread... [MORE]	Mohamed Zarook	Dec 9, 2007 08:05