Unbridled capitalist greed, a main accelerant for Middle East conflict all this while

Unbridled capitalist greed, a main accelerant for Middle East conflict all this while?

kooldog59 said:

Source (A1): Jihadist thinker says Islamic caliphate will cause Islamist infighting
Yes, oil is one of the reasons but pride also plays a very big part especially when there is a very long history of dispute in the region that dates back thousands of years.....

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Guess like adding oil to fire is adding $$$ to the Middle East conflict. Without the high price of oil and the interference of the USA in supporting tyrants on the basis of how cheaply they sell oil to the USA/ friendliness to USA/Europe oil companies: Shell/ ExxonMobil etc etc: the turmoil in the Middle East would probably be only half as bad even if it smouldered on. The high price of oil and the easy accessibility of USA/ Russian made weapons only adds oil to fire in the Middle East conflict.
Just as USA abuses its power to access cheap oil (supporting tyrants who agree to sell cheap oil), Jihadist abuse Quaranic teachings by misleading the poor/ illiterate to do the dirty work as suicide bombers etc to gain control over land where oil is found.
Many of the problems in this world are fueled by greed, and in most cases, it is for $$$.

Perhaps one way to improve the Middle East situation is for USA/ European uni to develop great history/ religious study institutions so as to decipher the truth in various religious text: e.g. Old Testament before further war destroys historical excavation sites etc. An upright example of a good moral lifestyle should be what USA should export to the M East to rival Islam which many say is BOTH religion but more so a WAY OF LIFE.

Selling cheap weapons to M.East tyrants will only fuel further conflict and as this short sighted USA foreign policy continues, the exports of M East from YouTube news of human rights abuses to 9/11WTC explosions will just continue...

Other than leading by example, USA will NEVER have an upper hand over the conflict within Islam in the Middle East, at least not with their habitual habit of adding oil to fire in their spirit of unbrided capitalist greed.

... ...money generated from Saudi oil sales to the U.S. often translates into Saudi arms purchases from U.S. weapons dealers. Oil represents the backbone of the Saudi economy. But despite its small population and its oil revenues reaching $45 billion, in the 1990-93 period Saudi foreign and domestic debt climbed to $70 billion. Most of this was the result of arms purchases, largely from the United States. Riyadh allocates 35% to 45% of its budget for military spending. The rise of opposition forces within Saudi Arabia is linked to this pattern of arms spending as well as the corrupt practices of the monarchy.
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U.S. Oil Policy in the Middle East: Securing the flow of affordable oil is a cornerstone of U.S. Middle East policy; By Mamoun Fandy, January 1, 1997

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Re: Unbridled capitalist greed, a main accelerant for Middle East conflict all this w

America involvement in ww1 brought reform and subsequently middle-class to Europe and the rest of the world.
But that was not the real intention of America is bring about a better world.
Because while it promote democracy in Europe, it blocked democracy in some countries like Haiti

America was especially cruel in the process of destroying the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the German Empire, because the greedy Americans also sow the seeds of the American Imperialism and hegomony in the 20th century. The America Century. American world order, not international world order.




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