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Cause of Warming and Effect on Security
Interestingly, Thomas Freidman's article in the Sunday NYTimes illustrates how American's instiable appetite for oil from totalitarian states (and our willingness to pay high oil prices) has only increased the radicallization of those country's populations. By providing an influx of cash to those nation-states, we have provided the funding needed for these regimes to endear themselves to the most radical elements in society and thereby keeping themselves in power minimizing threat to themselves from revolution.
See: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/magazine/15green.t.html ...On Calling All Hawks posted 2 years, 7 months ago 4 Responses