Kill 'em with Commerce

In the scope of time, I'm still not sure why it is/was necessary to do anything about the middle east. Why don't we just kill 'em with commerce? We've all heard about, and some experienced first hand, the hypocracy of Saudi society preaching abstinance from western invention and influence on the one hand and holding a ice cold bud in the other. Don't you think that, over time, the Arab world will succumb to western influence in the course of normal commerce? True they appear to be stuck in the 5th century but its like the introduction of anything new...it takes time. As long as the oil is cheap, what's the hurry? And, when the oil runs out...who will care? Why are we forcing it? And please don't recite the 9/11 spiel on me.

Nope, get at 'em with commerce. That's the ticket.

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