Dan Minette wrote: > > First of all; a number of nations did chip in for the cost of the first > Gulf War. It amounted to less than 100 billion. The Saudis, the Kuwaitis > and the Japanese were the biggest contributors. > > But, let us look at that kind of money over 9 years (assuming it started > late in '91 and ended when Clinton left office.) That comes to ~11 > billion/year, about 0.1% of the US GDP. > > That's in the noise, to first order. > If getting free oil for 10+ years is noise, then what's the point of the 2nd Gulf War? Why bother with the oil prices? Let it get to 100 dollars per (unit of volume), and let China get blown! Something must be wrong in this logic.
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