Right, it's all freedom, democracy, blah when comes to living room TV drama about some random country in North Africa. But if it's the gas the car can't run w/o, we will all start thinking for ourselves first.
Yeah, I didn't mean to sound as if I was advocating it, I just assumed that was the deal. Kind of like the UN peacekeepers in Rwanda in '03, who had too narrow a mandate to stop the genocide. In actuality I think it'd be great if 50-100 years ago we had just bought all the end products and taught them how to exploit, produce, distribute and market it on their own: then they could spread the wealth, jobs and education amongst more of their populace, we'd have a more robust and equitable economic (and by extension diplomatic) relationship and we'd be forced to improve alternate energy production and/or streamline consumption.
A Rice education and "President Urkel" is the best you can do. Cause there are such striking physical similarities between President Obama and Jaleel White? Such as...er....skin pigmentation. Or is it because both have been known to play basketball. Gah, never mind...I just fell for the trolling.
With recent gas speculation centered around the possibility of revolutions reaching critical mass elsewhere, we're forced to think about it. Nobody wants 70s era stagflation.
