----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 1:02 AM Subject: Re: N. Korea Says Has Nukes
> Dan Minette wrote: > > > > >This seems like a good reason for the difference between our attitude > >toward North Korea and Iraq. > > > Which is the greater threat? The guy with a loaded gun or the one that > is frantically trying to figure out how to make a slingshot? Does it > really enhance our safety if you go after the guy with the slingshot > because he's the easier target? Don't you have to deal with the one > with the gun eventually? > > As for the oil stuff, here's a thought. Not one that I think is > necessarily true or accurate, but something that occurred to me as possible: > > "I'm not sure that the short term profits of Texas oil people are as > much a consideration as the long term control of all the spigots. If > Hussain died tomorrow and a reasonable, responsible government took > over, I'm guessing that the U.S. would be aced out by the Russians and > the French among others for control of the resources in that region, and > there is little that we could do about it. The long term control of 120 > bbl (or so) is much more strategically important than a few years of > profitable business back home. All the world runs on oil and the > country that controls it, controls all the world." > > You may be absolutely right, that oil plays little or no part in the > administration's thinking on this matter, but I am very suspicious. > The *only*.........*only*.........*only* countries that have contracts for post war/blockade Iraqi oil are Russia and France freaking France. Which puts an interesting slant on UN Security Council voting for those of you who seem to think the UN is bonded to some sort of halo. It is also interesting to observe the movements of British Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell in that part of the world. When all this is over the US might be able to *purchase* Iraqi oil, but it will be from parties who are ahem........strictly European. xponent Dredging Through News Sources Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
