The bulk of oppressive regimes (notable exception North Korea) fund their dictatorships on natural resources mainly oil and precious medals/gems.
In the past few months oil has dropped dramatically in price....many people have stated that this is due to increasing supplies, different/cheaper blends coming on-line, decreasing demand..etc.
However, the same type of decrease in oil price has been seen in the past, when the oil demand supply environment was completely different...but there was one key factor that was the same. The US publicly stated with conviction that we will be free of our dependence on foreign oil. Combine that with the discovery of an oil field just off the gulf coast rivaling the Alaskan oil field and you have a receipt for the oil funded dictators of the world to collude on the creation of an oil glut.
Watch in the next few months to a year...if we continue to push the agenda of energy independence the price of oil will drop like a rock. Not because it is cheaper to produce, but because the cartel of OPEC is scared they will loose their hold on the world.
Remember they only have two things in most of these Arab countries, Oil and Sand. I do not see a great demand for sand.
So how does this relate back to the methods we need to use fight terrorism. Well, if you pay attention to the 9/11 report the only area we have improved is the pursuit of terror funding.
That (terror funding) is the main tie between Saddam and terrorism in the Middle East and beyond. He funded it...before the first gulf war it was directly with oil monies, after (during the embargo's) it was with the UN's oil for food proceeds (Thanks Mr. Annan and son).
No one noticed the marked decrease in homicide bombers in the Middle East (outside of Iraq) after Saddams fall. You see, if you study the news out of the Middle East prior to 2002 you will find that Saddam had a publicly announced program to pay the families of homicide bombers attacking western or Israeli targets 50k to 100k.
That seems to indicate state sponsored terrorism to me. That is inline with the fight on terrorism, pursuing a state that harbors or sponsors terrorism.
So, it may not have been directly paying the organization, but then how much of the terrorist actions are direct....they do not attack the state they are in disagreement with they randomly kill it's citizens.
At best Saddam is a victim of his own rhetoric, at worst he is the image of Hitler who after attacking his neighbor was pushed back. Then after 10+ years was finally brought down for the systematic killing of his own people, the pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and the indirect funding of terrorist organizations bent on taking us back to the stone ages.
In the past few months oil has dropped dramatically in price....many people have stated that this is due to increasing supplies, different/cheaper blends coming on-line, decreasing demand..etc.
However, the same type of decrease in oil price has been seen in the past, when the oil demand supply environment was completely different...but there was one key factor that was the same. The US publicly stated with conviction that we will be free of our dependence on foreign oil. Combine that with the discovery of an oil field just off the gulf coast rivaling the Alaskan oil field and you have a receipt for the oil funded dictators of the world to collude on the creation of an oil glut.
Watch in the next few months to a year...if we continue to push the agenda of energy independence the price of oil will drop like a rock. Not because it is cheaper to produce, but because the cartel of OPEC is scared they will loose their hold on the world.
Remember they only have two things in most of these Arab countries, Oil and Sand. I do not see a great demand for sand.
So how does this relate back to the methods we need to use fight terrorism. Well, if you pay attention to the 9/11 report the only area we have improved is the pursuit of terror funding.
That (terror funding) is the main tie between Saddam and terrorism in the Middle East and beyond. He funded it...before the first gulf war it was directly with oil monies, after (during the embargo's) it was with the UN's oil for food proceeds (Thanks Mr. Annan and son).
No one noticed the marked decrease in homicide bombers in the Middle East (outside of Iraq) after Saddams fall. You see, if you study the news out of the Middle East prior to 2002 you will find that Saddam had a publicly announced program to pay the families of homicide bombers attacking western or Israeli targets 50k to 100k.
That seems to indicate state sponsored terrorism to me. That is inline with the fight on terrorism, pursuing a state that harbors or sponsors terrorism.
So, it may not have been directly paying the organization, but then how much of the terrorist actions are direct....they do not attack the state they are in disagreement with they randomly kill it's citizens.
At best Saddam is a victim of his own rhetoric, at worst he is the image of Hitler who after attacking his neighbor was pushed back. Then after 10+ years was finally brought down for the systematic killing of his own people, the pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and the indirect funding of terrorist organizations bent on taking us back to the stone ages.
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