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It might not be a bad idea to stop trading with them and publicly condemn certain things about their society, especially their treatment of women. I assume this
by joesmo 11y ago
It might not be a bad idea to stop trading with them and publicly condemn certain things about their society, especially their treatment of women. I assume this will happen as soon as we're no longer dependent on the region for fuel and not before.
- mercurial 11y agoI don't know who the "we" is in this sentence, but if you mean the US, that's not going to happen. Even outside of oil, US bases down there have a strategic importance.
- joesmo 11y agoThe 'we' refers to the international community of which the US is the biggest--but not the only--influencer. I don't see what US bases have to do with the US condemning the atrocities in the middle east, especially in a post-oil world. I think the US will want to keep its bases there and probably will, but there won't any strong incentives to keep them there like we have now. There certainly won't be any incentives to trade with countries in the middle east like Saudi Arabia because they have absolutely nothing to trade other than oil. In that situation, I'm quite sure we'll finally call them out (hypocritically, of course) on their human rights abuses and their essential enslavement of women.