You miss the point of the oil, whomever controls the oil controls the fortunes that come with it. With fortunes come weapons and armies.
On 1/13/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dana wrote: > > erm, I don't think we entered that war over Erope actually... we > > entered it over Pearl Harbor > > > > 'lackly Dana. Plus Hitler was on a rampage invading not just > countries, but continents. Nice try RoMunn, but the comparison is > moot. > > Iraq is a made up country - by Churchhill in fact. It's *possible* > that all of the factions will drop their arms and hug, it's just not > probable. So why do we care at all? > > 1 reason and 1 only: oil. You can try to obfuscate that truth with > morals or terrorism but none of that washes. We're only in the Middle > East for oil. > > And, if take RoMunn's other point - that oil is "fungible" - we > shouldn't care about the Middle East at all. Let's pull out, watch it > implode and then make friends with whomever is left. > > Seems to me China gets plenty of oil and they don't even have a noodle > stand set up in the Middle East. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:224633 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
