cropcirclewalker
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Mr. Butt,
I yam sorry. I thought you had read all of this thread. Never mind.
I yam sorry. I thought you had read all of this thread. Never mind.
Thebaine is found in the opium poppy and the companies that make oxycodone get it from poppies from the area in question. It would be very hard to make sure all the poppies going to oxycodone production were NOT funding terrorists at some point.
Originally posted by abadon:
Wouldn't total withdrawal of our troops and economic resources from the Middle East cause the jihadists to win the conflict with the tolerant Arabs/Persians?
The fact is the reason the former are increasingly hateful of us is because the latter are becoming Westernized. This Westernization is a threat to them because it signifies the death knell of their type of fundamentalism.
Fortunately alternatives exist. We can switch to non-petroleum energy sources like nuclear, wind,, solar, bio-diesel, ethanol, and many others.