Not exactly my point, but almost. The US Needs a military presence to prevent radical Islam from taking over the area and using the oil money to raise armies that and gain weapons that they can use against the US and our allies.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 10:45 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: 12% Support More Troops > > > Nick wrote: > > Bin Laden longer has control over any country > > The Way I Read Your Point: > ----------------------------------------- > The US doesn't need a military presence in the ME because the ME will > always sell oil to us due to its profit incentive. > > My Point: > ------------------------------------------ > Not true. Were Bin Laden (or anyone unfriendly to the US) to take > control of Saudi Arabia (as Bin Laden said his primary mission was) > they would be able to single handedly control oil and thus the world > economy. They may not be motivated by profit incentive and they could > completely shut off Saudi Arabian oil. The US has always understood > this (since the 40s) and felt that, therefore, a military presence was > needed in the ME to secure the constant and free flow of oil. > Therefore the US invaded Iraq PRIMARILY to secure this oil flow: both > because it would give them a forward base in the region AND settle > growing Saudi unrest since the US could pull out of Saudi. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:224696 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
