From China to the Mediterranean Sea
It can’t be this simple.
Last week I bought a nine inch world globe from Office Depot. I’d been looking for small globe for a few months and this one had the advantage of having a three brightness bulb inside. My purpose was to brush up on the location of countries of the world. Where’s Kyrgyzstan, for instance.
Of course my first lookup was Iraq, and what I discovered set me back on my heels. Iraq’s neighbors include Syria, Iran and Afghanistan, among other, but these three are in a line that extends from the border of China to the Mediterranean Sea. We have a presence in Afghanistan, and Iraq, and we’ve made big noises about the governments of Syria and Iran not being to our liking.
If we were to extend our presence in Syria and Iran we would draw a line that would about bisect the Muslim World. We would also control oil reserves and oil production that would allow us to set the world price. That would solve one of our greatest problems.
As I turned my little lighted globe and looked at the countries of the world I was amazed to see how they were selling USA their resources and cheap labor and we are exporting our culture and our weapons.
How’s that for a trade?
Henry Stevens
