can't agree anymore, and i would like to add it is not about resources only, it is about who leads the country...
Of course...Have you notice the government/administration styles of the countries of the muslim ME..
The closer the muslim nations to Europe (christian Europe) the less they are allowed to be ruled under sharia and the further they are away from christian Europe the more they are allowed to be ruled under sharia (islam)...This was arranged to stay like this after ottoman empire was dismantled..
For those muslim nations neighbouring Europe, Democracy was meant to be nothing other than rooting secularism to weaken power of the religion and peoples sense of belonging to a religious nation in order to avoid sharia expanding into Europe as it was in the middle ages...
In reality it makes no difference if they are democracies or sharia countries..Couse Ever since Nato and America took world power,Muslims are being slaved in so called democratic nations with military backed dictators, and in sharia countries through military backed kings..(of course both kings and dictators meant to stay in power as long as they could last and serve their interests)..
In democracy ruled muslim nations there is no way they would allow hamas and hizbullah like islamic parties be in power..Are you watching lebanon?..Hizbullah was given authority to form government by the president, soon after that America/Nato and Israel were quick to condemn the decision and said they were going to fight against Hizbullah...A´$$oles<br /><br />-- Sat Jan 29, 2011 3:47 pm --<br /><br />
Berrin, you always take the position of victim too easily but there is a good experience of China itself. There were no a hidden plan to rise so big rival which China is now at the end of 70s. It's the merit of the Comunist Party and its leader Den, not the foreign office of US and the first goal China reached under his leadership was food indepandance.
Didn't quite understand what you meant here...
On the other hand uncontroled birth rate makes it impossible to avoid hunger without import of food. Wise Den Xiaoping recognized self-sufficiency of food and moved in the both direction at the beginning of his reforms.
If we don't stop living on interest(without risk) on capital rather than investing it and if we don't avoid usury and speculation to slave investors and borrowers than the whole world financial system will continue to suffer.. Current crises has nothing to do with increasing birth rates but has a lot to do with the imbalance of world developement from one corner to the other..A good governing country should be able to implement agricultural policies to handle its increasing population unless it is stoped by the world powers of course.. i.e exporting agricultural lords..
