Reply #10: You have said the basic problem, it is a very touchy subject [View All]

[FlavaKreemSnak]

But the points of view are just so different about this and it is a very controversial issue. A lot of the people who live in those countries consider that the oil belongs to them, but we and the other western nations consider that it belongs to us because of the point of view that the west, and especially America, is the boss of everything, so if there is another country that has something that we want, our point of view is that they should hand it over and be like all happy and grateful that they have anything we would want.

But their point of view is just really really different from that, and that is why we have to spend so much money to help them have pro-American leaders and clampdowns on the people who have that different point of view, which a lot of us don't really think about. I know I didn't think about it for a long time, but the people there don't really see themselves as inferior or that their oil or whatever belongs to us because we are westerners. In their point of view, we are just these criminals that kill them to steal their stuff, but here that point of view is considered anti-American and terrorist ideology.

So you have to be careful, you can make a lot of people seriously mad if you go around saying that it belongs to them.