Who has time for such naivete?

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April 25, 2006

Who has time for such naivete?
by Mark A. Goldman


All this talk about bombing Iran might not be about nuclear weapons at all. Notice that Iraq, Iran, and Venezuela all have/had one thing in common: none of them wants/wanted to trade oil for dollars anymore. In the case of Venezuela, they've partly gone to a barter system... bypassing dollars by trading oil directly for goods and services.

If more countries begin trading oil in euros or other currencies, this will have serious repercussions for the US economy... perhaps more serious than anything you've seen in your lifetime. Some have suggested that this is the main reason we went into Iraq in the first place. I don't argue the point. It's always been about oil... but how oil trades might be the most important issue. We might be able to delay it for a little while, but the trading of oil in euros on a major exchange is probably inevitable.

The truth is, we have convinced ourselves that because we are now so dependent on oil, even the oil under other people's soil should belong to us. And because we can get away with it, we choose war and terrorism to secure our supplies. Our strategic terrorism is not something we talk about. In the reality of the Bush league, anyone who seeks to challenge American supremacy--economic or otherwise--is evil and must be destroyed. It's a deadly dead end road, with too many dead already piled up along the curb.

The central issue is not complicated. The American strategy now is centered on trying to RULE the world through fear and intimidation. LEADING the world towards a reality of true brotherhood and sustainability is what we need. But that sounds like idealism. Who has time for such naivete? Right?

So we focus instead on policy issues rather than on the forgotten critical issue, which is: who are we and what do we stand for, as individuals and as a people?

What we need is a fundamental paradigm shift......


Mark A. Goldman is an activist and the author of three books of political commentary. Email: mark@gpln.com URL: www.gpln.com


THE SECOND HALF OF THIS ARTICLE IS EVEN BETTER!!! READ IT ALL!

intimidation has collapsed upon itself...if we do not change course....there will be dire consequences to the country...

necessary, they steal. We are addicts, that may very well be the only true statement lil boots ever made.

That paradigm shift is already happening. Been waiting for it since 1980. The only good thing about lil boots is his radical extremism woke a lot of people up, and spurred on the shift. Perhaps he was sent by God, after all... (Mawkish humor, please excuse).