Dan Minette wrote:
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?This seems like a good reason for the difference between our attitude toward North Korea and Iraq.
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.
Doug
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