text: It's not the oil. We'd be more than happy to just buy it from Arabs and stay home. We'll buy it from anyone willing to sell it. We bought Iraqi oil in 2002, so we didn't need to invade for oil. We buy oil. We're capitalists.
  We didn't invent terrorism. It's an old thing. . A terrorist in 1801 was called a pirate- and one pirate could not threaten a city. But the world is changing, getting smaller. Today, we are all connected, and if a thousand people in Jordan die, we see it in America and vice versa.It's scarier now. But it is an old, old history. There were terrorists thousands of years ago. No bombs, but there was terror.
  We don't call Iraqis or Arabs terrorists. A few Iraqis and few Arabs and other people here and there become terrorists. Do you know what is a lot scarier than a terrorist? A population that has been taught to think that terror is okay. THAT is the root of the problem.
  You said, who controls Eurasia controls the world- but this is obvious, In terms of people, Eurasia is most of the world already! But the issue of Books, Hasan, you are absolutely right! Do you want to know the real reason for the problems in the middle east today? 1493, Hasan. That was the year the middle east got its first printing press, thanks to Jewish refugees from Spain moving to Israel. And the Ottoman sultan then banned printing in Turkish or Arabic! This ban stayed for about 3 centuries! Can you imagine? Three Centuries, LOST! Think about what happened during those three centuries in the west: Voltaire, Locke, Hume, Democracy, Representation, Industrial Revolution, Isaac Newton, Navigation, Steam Engine... all these things which made the west "modern" were locked away from the middle east. You know the history. Before 1493, the middle east was equal to or not more advanced than Europe in science and learning. But, three lost centuries later, it is a poor and primitive place. Books! And not just Books: Freedom to exchange information, to think, to challenge ideas without some religious nut telling you it is blasphemy! That is why.