The good ole Hugo being good ole Hugo. Banning overflights of US airliners
is just a move to show his people "look, I am a hero against the big old
evil".
On the other hand, we are hated in oil rich countries because we don't walk
the walk, of the talk of democracy we keep preaching about. Shash's Iran,
Fahd's S.Arabia, Al-Sabah family in Kuwait, The "Turkmenbashi" in
Kazakhistan, or even Saddam in Iraq are good examples of tyranny we support
just because the have oil..
I am drving a 1600cc car, you should all be doing that too..
Oh yeah, I am getting a Diamond TwinStar that burns 8.8 gallons/hr too. :)
BAHA
Fan of knowing my facts..
-----Original Message-----
From: The Airline List [mailto:***@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of
Travel Pages
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 2:04 PM
To: ***@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Re: SFGate: Venezuela Delays Airline Ban Until March
.... only increasing the nation's determination to rid itself of a
dependence on foreign oil.
It won't happen overnight, or all at once, but staying on that course
should give exporting countries a wake-up call: convert your oil wealth
today into an infrastructure that will keep you above starvation levels
tomorrow.
At the moment, this is not the case for nations like Venezuela that
basically have a single export product. Should someone "decide" that
driving gas to $7.50/gallon domestically is preferable to circuitously
funding some unfriendly nations, watch out, because the effect would carry
greater devastation than WWII and every subsequent military action: Rand
Corporation's estimation of the size of the Third World famine (if the US
stopped importing oil tomorrow) is on order of 200M+ people.
No wonder we are hated in almost every country in which we drive an
oil-based economy. We are the hand that feeds, and we know it all too
well... and we're stating publically ("addicted to foreign oil" says POTUS)
that we want to change this behavior.
"Agarwalla, Niraj" <***@FMR.com> wrote:
I can't help reading this as another attempt by Hugo Chavez to put a
thumb in the eye's of the United States. Nevertheless, I think
negotiations are the way to go to resolve any outstanding issues.
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Niraj Agarwalla
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