by Linda Gehring

Created on: March 16, 2009

Since it is more than clear to most Americans at this point that America's continued presence in the Middle East in both Iraq and Afghanistan is not at all primarily as a response and defensive mission with respect to the attacks on this country by Osama bin Laden and the Taliban in September 2001, but for purely economic reasons - i.e., oil and the "jobs and the economies" of selected government military contractors, I began doing some reasearch and stumbled across some rather interesting facts in the process.

This new information has now complicated my theories about why we are continuing to fight this "no win" war against an enemy whose entire belief system is based upon martyrdom for their cause. Strange also has been the silence in the media for now six long years in the amount of civilian and other casualities which have been the result of this engagement.

As many Americans, I had believed that the U.S. did intend to redress 9/11 bringing bin Laden and all who may have been directly involved to justice even after the lie of weapons of mass destruction was revealed.

I also believed that the recent crisis in Gaza were separate and isolated events involving two different hot spot issues, and two splinter terrorist organiations.

Soon though through my research my questions changed to

1) Is it possible that the gist of the ongoing strife in the Middle East as also exhibited by the recent bombings in Gaza could be much more complex than simple disputes over the World War II displacement of Arabs in Palestine after the war in the esblisment of the Nation of Israel, and primarily over simply border issues, land and territory?

(2) Could it be also that there are fundamental religious differences that impact the economy of these countries that make any resolution or compromise tenuous at best, and that the U.S.'s support for Israel, right or wrong, might have also a self-serving aspect to it through the Federal Reserve and world bank connections for not simply needed oil but other economic and dominion reasons?

The genesis of my research was due to the current financial collapse and banking crisis in the United States, and the amounts of rising banking interests rates progressively which have occurred in this country due in large part to lack of any adequate regulation at either the federal or state level of banking practices in this country.

In so doing I found information in Wiki and then some further information from recent headlines that I was totally unaware of at

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