"thunder" wrote in message
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On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:57:28 -0700, Mr Wizzard wrote:


Not really a fair comparison, is it? For most of this century, the Arab
world was being pillaged by those industrialized countries.

Woe, woe, woe..... See? its *THIS* very (*VERY*) misguided
emotion-ridden mindsets that is at the *heart* of the entire issue.
Ain't nobody "pillaged" **** here buster! - No one came in by
force to "pillage" no oil from the Arabs. That an insult. What,
the South America countries were "pillaged" too? Man....
The Arab lands received a very lucrative profits from that oil.



For most of
this century, the Arab world were colonies of England and France or
part of the Ottoman Empire. Perhaps, a fairer question would be, what did
those industrial powers bring to the Arab world?

Wealth!!!! and LOTS of it too!. Take off them
rose-colored glasses - there is no shortage of flow
of money. And SEE? - this speaks DIRECTLY to
my point - they got SO much oil wealth for SO
little effort for SO long, that the incentives to do
anything else were vitually non existant.


I mean, besides death,
destruction, and absurd lines on a map.

"Absurd" lines on a map? Why are they
so "absurd"? What - should have just
been a free-for-all land grab ? So why is
it the fault of England, France, or Ottoman
empire for thease lines? - these Arab areas
could have done the same, they were not
handicaped in any way.