Re: Essentially untapped 200 billion barrel oil deposits in the Dakotas

On 31 mrt, 16:43, "David L. Burkhead" <dburkh...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Despite what you think, it's not the poverty of their societies that
makes terrorists--it's the fanatacism they take in with their mothers' milk.
There are other nations just as poor that _don't_ go the international
terrorist route.

So you think poverty has no effect on radicalisation? How interesting,
you should maybe tell every academic who's studied it in any detail
ever :P

Your theory here simply does not match reality.

Riiiight.

There's practically no serious money going to terrorism; no
underground complexes, no aircraft carriers, no cruise missiles. Not
on the scale of oil money. Look at the combined costs of 9/11, Madrid,
7/7 - that's village council-level funding.

You might want to check again. While the cost of the individual
operations is low, the cost of running the organization is a whole
different
ballgame.

You have accounting figures? :P

Do you? However you might want to look at the long history of both
media and various "analysts" discussing the wealth of folk like the Bin
Laden family and other contributors to the terrorist "cause." The "well
funded" argument is pretty orthodox.

Donald Rumsfeld was on TV a few years ago talking about the vast
underground complex that Al-Qaida no doubt had in Afghanistan - with
artists' impressions, the full works. No doubt due to all that oil
money. What did the soldiers find in Afghanistan? A few huts and some
tents.

Without the global organization, you basically have local criminals. A nuisance, nothing more.

Besides 9/11, the attacks *have* been local criminals; locally funded,
locally organised. It's the "bunch of guys" model that the CIA use. It
doesn't take a whole back-office; the next attacks won't be duplicates
of 9/11.

Well, that's a nice theory anyway.

It's the one the CIA uses, as opposed to the one a seemingly
uninformed Internet Guy appears to be using. The European attacks were
all enthusiastic amateurs with no need of external backing. 9/11
required the funding of a few flight lessons and some housing for a
bunch of guys with frugal needs for a couple of years. The oil
billions just aren't there.

Oilmen like the West and all the west's money. The zealots are in
Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the oil isn't.

Rich
.

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