I'd disagree with the phrase "our interests"
The interests of the lackwits currently running this country are most likely not mine.

Oil may be a valid point but will production actually stop or will it just mean buying it of different people?

Is stability desirable just because of oil or for some other reason?

Knowing what little I do of the region I doubt it will be stable any time soon, and I's also suggest that previous interventions have not helped one bit.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 14 Oct 2011, 13:22, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Yo', sorry, I dashed off.
Iron Man is deffo the coolest avenger, totally agree, but one of the whole points of marvel, at least from a geek's point of view, is all the subtext messages and all that. I mean, that's always been the thing with (ok, this is DC, same diff in this case) Superman, is he jesus like? Is it better to be a superman agmonst humans or an average superman agmonst supermen? In the realm of aliens, does god exist? Is the world better off under the rule of verious different systems? ....etc..... I'm not heavily into DC/Marvel/etc, but I thought maybe you were, so that's why I pulled up on the whole Tony Stark being such an extreme over something that I thought (and was wrong about, which is fair 'nuff, my mistake, sorry) you held so closely and dear.

Kindda like this, I'm jewish, I'm not religious, I like bacon, I donno what i believe, have no idea how to define myself. Cultuerly, I'm jewish, but I donno about the religion side of things. I would never say "Oh man, hitler is so fucking cool" even though Robery Carlyl playing him in the film "Hitler: The rise of evil" was extremly powerful and charamastic. I'd watch the film, be entertained by the film, be amazed at the acting by Robert Carlyl, but I would never say "Hitler was the coolest dictator". Which also brings to another point of yours, I thought it was Tony Stark/Iron Man that you loved, rather than Robert Downing Junior.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 14:22, Reply)