On 1/14/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The TOP interest of the US (and, really, the World) is guaranteeing > it's energy supply. No oil, little oil, or an oil embargo would throw > not only the US economy into a tail spin but the world economy.
But they'd all survive. > To guarantee the US energy supply the US has maintained both political > and military ties to key allies within the Middle East - specifically > Saudi Arabia as they have always sat on 70%+ of the known global oil > supply. Kuwait also comes to mind. > To ensure that the US can repel any Saudi threat both internal and > external the US must do 3 key things: > > 1.) Maintain a large, fully supplied, strike force capable of > defending Saudi Arabia indefinitely. What has changed in the last ten years that makes you say this. > 2.) Maintain close political and personal ties with the Saudi > government. (Prince Bandar, Saudi US Amb, wrote to Pres Bush 1, "You > are my friend for life, one of my family") I think Carter has closer ties. They're well invested in international business. It'd be hard to be a player on the world stage and not interact with them. > 3.) Maintain stability in the Middle East to prevent oil price and > supply threats in general. And maybe save lives too? > By invading Iraq Pres Bush hoped to: > > (1.) Establish a permanent military base in the Middle East that > wouldn't inflame the already inflamed Saudi population against the > royal family (thus the US military pullout). I don't think we'll have a permanet base there. Again that was the Air Force controling the now-fly-zone. > (2.) Stabilize the region due to US military threat, thus guaranteeing > the US oil flows. And maybe stopping the terrorists? > (3.) Start a "domino effect" that would ultimately create a region of > US allies eliminating the need for US military. World peace. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:224701 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
