[kittymyrib]

Why should the USA send any of our food resources to the Middle East in this time of shortage, caused by their $100 oil? Let them grow their own food, just as we are having to grow our fuel now.

[backtothestreets]

"Why should the USA send any of our food resources to the Middle East in this time of shortage, caused by their $100 oil? Let them grow their own food, just as we are having to grow our fuel now."

Why indeed? Those artificially controlled oil prices have brought harm to our own population as we have had to resort to turning food crops into fuel. I'm more inclined to think it time we create a new multinational organization, OFEC (Organization of FOOD Exporting Countries) to turn the tables on OPEC. That admission goes against my objections to our nation being intertwined with other governments, free trade, and using food as an economic weapon, but such an organization is seeming plausible under current situations.