... I think it was just a fairy tale someone wrote a book about.

Heh heh heh

"If we weren't addicted to oil, would we have kept the Muslims chained to barbarism? "

Sheesh, you really have been brainwashed ... no wonder you can't do anything but whine. And you can't visualize the difference between "getting stoned" in the MidEast and "getting stoned" in SF?!? Hurry up and get back on your turnip truck.