Originally posted by NUKE
Just jump right in champ.
Into this? I really don't recommend it.
Nuke, from Merriam-Webster:
Control:
2 a : to exercise restraining or directing influence over.
You find it so ridiculous that this would have any relationship to ME-US history?
Give me a break.
Man... The real problem here is that you continually break every thread you enter down into little tiny peices, pick out the parts you don't like, and ram them repeatedly down everyone's throat.
Or just make the weirdest, most provocative statements out of nowhere.
It's sad because the discussions, which could be very interesting and informative, always come down to some simple rhetoric.
Why aren't we talking about, as Hang suggested, The Shah or Iran. Standard Oil and the Saudi Royal House. Oman. Jordan. The U.A.E.?
Because nobody can. Because the minute they do, some sentence will get dissassembled by you and like a pitbull latching onto it, will just never let the discussion evolve.
There are way smarter people than you and I, Nuke. Get used to it. Give them a bit of room, okay?