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Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@green.rahul.net> enscribed:

>      Indeed.  "Those kinds" who use the Israel/Palestinian conflict
> to distract their people from the lousy oppressive government.  And
> who spend lots of money--mostly from selling oil to the West--to
> propagate fundamentalist Islam and to publish anti-American and anti-
> Semitic propaganda.

Thanks for slowly seeing the light. Now can you finish the thought? Supporting genocide and torturers has a billion or so people pissed off at the U.S. Therefore the best foreign policy is
(1) Continue this winning policy.
(2) Or truly support democracy and equality among all humans.

>      A "non-racist foreign policy" is one that would be pro-Arab
> rather than pro-Israel, based on the practicalities of the situation
> rather than the ethics?  Either way, I think the basis of the policy

You choose (1).

>      How are we paying below-market for oil?  As best I can 
> determine, we are paying the same price as everybody else; after all,

The U.S. concern has not been control of the price but to secure oil supplies, at any cost to the people who sit on the oil. Once you realize this (hard, I know), you will understand U.S. foreign policy to the Mideast, Columbia, Venezula, and so forth. The U.S. and China are currently competing to secure oil supplies for the future. The U.S. has depended on its tradition of terrorizing or destroying anybody who has endangered the supply (the Iraq war was never about democracy--it was about terrorizing Gulf States to keep sending their oil to the U.S and its allies). Meanwhile China has been quietly making deals.

The U.S policy worked from the 1920s into the 1990s (with a brief hiccup around 1975), but it is now falling apart: people in South America and Asia Minor are too pissed off to be terrorized anymore; note that Hugo Chavez has ascended while the U.S. has become bogged down in Iraq. Useful idiots like you buy into the propaganda that it's about some kind of higher morality; you're busy cheering on the U.S. (directly or through proxies like Israel) dealng with those Arabs you claim are inherently violent, and you don't notice the crimes committed in your name. 

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Feh. Mad as heck.