RE: Moving to Europe. (was Re: American Empire as Gated Community)

["Michael Peters" <mpeters@csi.com>]

> God bless the much misunderstood and
> often maligned French for consistently
> offering an alternative to Anglo-Saxon
> predicaments that get the USA and UK
> backed against a self-created wall of
> self-righteousness.  When the you're
> looking for a western country where
> education, healthcare and the quality of
> life rivals anything found in the world,
> vive la France!


with all due respect to France, but the French government voted against a
war against Irak not out of humanist reasons, but because the French oil
industry has long-term contracts with Saddam Hussein, giving them cheap
access to the huge amounts of oil that waits to be exploited in the Iraqian
ground - whereas, you guessed it, the US and UK don't have such contracts,
and so they'll have to get access by force. Make no mistake (to use a nice
Bushism), the war will be led because of these reasons only. Cheap oil!
Driving huge oil gulping cars for very little money - that's many 
Americans'
idea of freedom, and the US economy is in fact based on this idea.


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