Reply #20: Making the world safe for ISRAEL????

[Colorado Blue]

Oh please. Since when is throwing the Middle East into chaos, inviting terror and increasing anti-Semitism exponentially, making the world safer for Israel or for any Jews anywhere?

The war was about OIL and about advancing American corporate interests in the area and if possible, grabbing some territory for permanent bases. And, if you are using oil, to heat your house or drive your car, if you are a well-fed citizen of the US, you need to look at what these comforts have meant to your well-being over the span of your life.

The fact is this: no resident of an industrial nation can continue to deny his/her dependency upon oil. No resident of these nations, especially the US which is the GROSSEST user and polluter of all, can afford to ignore the effects of oil on the environment. None of us can ignore, any longer, the deleterious effects on the residents of oil-producing regions, and the geo-political stresses involved in procuring oil.

World Wars have been fought over priceless resources and oil is the primary fuel that gives the industrialized world its might and its wealth. It is the primary fuel that gives YOU your CAR, your mobility, your ability to hop on Southwest Airlines for a pittance.

ALL of us need to stop blaming outside conspiracies, such as the everpresent Zionists, who in my youth were said to be in league with the Communist One World Conspiracy and now are supposedly in league with the NeoCons and the Dominionist Christians, go figure, and LOOK IN THE MIRROR.

We must make all haste to develop alternate fuels. We must begin by voting with our feet - literally - stop driving as much as possible, for a start. The only way to change matters is for individual AMERICANS to stop blaming Israel for this war and take a good hard look in the mirror and take steps, individually and as a group, to reduce our dependence upon oil and the corporations who provide it to us. We must stop buying gigantic gas-guzzling cars. We must stop using off-road vehicles, motor boats, snow-mobiles and other noisy and polluting toys, at least until they can run on something besides OIL.

We've enjoyed a comfortable existence for a long, long time. People in other nations have suffered for our comfort. The environment is DYING for our comfort. It is time to be accountable for our privileges, and act creatively to ensure that this planet survives and that this great nation not go blindly into open-ended warfare on behalf of OUR oil habit.

It will take time. It will take energy. It will take investment capital and creativity. But most of all, FIRST OF ALL, it will take the willpower of the American people to lead the way toward clean, geopolitically neutral energy.

Finally, it is time to stop blaming the Jews for every damn misfortune that occurs on this planet.

TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT Mr. V.P. CHENEY. He is the face of big oil. And you are his CUSTOMER. YOU have to decide to stop buying his product.

Shalom.