[Convolutional]

> Or go to Middle East and call out their leadership and see what happen

The US and Europe have spent over a century backing despots in the Middle East and putting down or helping put down popular movements by force. The US doesn't even seem to mind if they dismember Washington Post reporters in their embassies. The US sends billions to Netanyahu every year to put down the Palestinian mass movement.

Funny how the US props up these despots, then points to them as a point of supposedly flattering comparison.

[everdrive]

Yep. I’ll bet you did something bad once too. Now all the points you make are invalid forever.

[drekk]

The scale is totally the same. I used to lie to my parents about eating candy that my grandmother gave me when I was 5. The Bush administration and media apparatus told lies to the American public as pretext for an invasion that displaced ~4.5 million people and killed another ~1 million. These things are equally bad and should be treated the same way.

[w0de0]

Hey man, if gas is expensive you vote for the other guy. Democracy can be evil like that.

[skissane]

Once the majority of Americans have electric cars, will US policy towards the Middle East change dramatically or stay largely the same?

[lotsofpulp]

Cheap fossil fuels means cheap everything else. Flights, plastic products, clothes, shipping, etc. Even cheap electricity for the electric cars.