Reply #47: Please don't mischaracterize my position.....

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Violence should be used as a last resort.....

In 1980 in response to turmoil in the Persian Gulf region Jimmy Carter (almost everybody's hero on this board) enunciated the Carter Doctrine.

The Carter Doctrine stated that the United States would not allow another nation to impede the free flow of oil through the Persian Gulf....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Doctrine

Oil is like food.... Food fuels the body and and oil fuels the world....

I am all for weening ourselves from foreign oil but if the spigot was turned off tomorrow it would make the aftermath of 9-11 look like a picnic....

And I assure you we would all feel the pain but poor folks would feel it first...