Whoa, hold on here Bucky, before you brand me an anti-democrat or an anti anything else examine the truth in what I am saying. Look at Africa where tribal societies are still perverting democracy over fifty years after they threw off the weight of colonial rule. Democracies work when people have no overriding loyalties that prevent their patriotic support of the government from being predominant. If you are loyal to the tribe over the government then every tribe has followers that will never yield their control over the tribal members to the leaders of another tribe. That has been written in blood across a whole continent during my whole lifetime. Democracy and tribalism seldom can coexist unless all tribal rivals are excluded from the territory to be governed. If there are rival tribes the largest or most warlike will become dominant through force of arms not votes. That is not democracy as we have known it here before the last election. We are more in danger of moving closer to tribal structure here, with the constant warfare between Democrats and Republicans, than either Iraq or Afghanistan are of becoming Democratic Republics.

Why fight the wars if everything is just going to descend back into the chaos of the prewar periods in both nations? There are two major reasons that these wars were fought, one was to free the oil of the area for commercial exploitation. The international trade in oil is nearly a trillion dollars a year! Most of the new oil that will become available in the market is going to come from Iraq or nations that need a pipeline through Afghanistan to get their oil to market. The second reason is the link with Israel and the politics of Arabic Israeli relations. Our ally in the Middle East and the owner of the most powerful standing army in the area next to our own is Israel. They have been a counterbalancing force to pan-Arabic dreams of glory since we started arming them, and our investment in Israel's Army has paid off handsomely. We are at the end of that strategic ploy's effectiveness. Israel is being punished daily with rigorous security measures instituted because we depend on their military strength to keep the Arabic nations that surround them at bay.

We have used Israel's conflicts with its neighbors as our defense against fighting the commercial wars for oil our empire of oil would otherwise have to fight. Yes we are the Empire of oil, but the Emperor of Oil is a worse sounding title than President of the United States. We have badly used that little nation of Israel while we were convincing everyone in this nation that we are the Champion of Democracy in that area of the world. We have done next to nothing to bind the wounds of both Israel and its neighbors and stop their eternal conflicts other than to arm Israel and condone its development of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Israel's battle with Palestine is going to have to be resolved or it will demolish what is left of civil society in Israel out of sheer exhaustion. Their economy is hurting, their children believe that death by a suicide bomber is inevitable, their pain is constant and now we are finally fighting our own wars in that area. It is time to free the children of Israel from their bondage to the USA. Once that is done maybe we can begin to remove our foot from on top of the Arabic throat. We have held the cards in the political conflicts with the Arabic world much as we once held the cards in the Indian wars. The one time the Indian tribes fought as a unit, at Wounded Knee they whipped our troops soundly. The Arabs are tribal too; they do not have the nationalism or Pan-Arabic identity needed to fight us effectively yet. They may develop it in time, but their oil could be gone by then. Democracy will become possible in some nations in that area when we quit using Israel and get our foot off the Arabic throat. Iraq and Afghanistan are the two least likely candidates. They just have the misfortune of being on the road to our oil.

You see power in this world works simply in the eyes of a CEO. If a problem exists in your effort to create a successful enterprise you remove it, be it human or otherwise. If profits are hard to achieve in your industry you fudge the books a little until times get better. If a rival owns an asset you want you drive down the value of that asset by fair means or foul and then you acquire that asset. Business is war in the current version of what business is about. War is now becoming the extension of business by other means, but then that has always been true in our commercial world. We are just not educated to grasp the extent that such decisions will impact our life in the future. The Empire of Oil will eat our freedom one bite at a time if we let it. It already has taken its first big bites with the Patriot Acts. In the end the CEO's will sacrifice any amount of our freedom for their access to oil. It is their cultural bias and their faith in oil as the source of power that is taking us down this path. There are other answers but they know how to use this one in their endless wars for advantage. God bless and keep you safe in these patriotic times.