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From: "PJ O'Donovan" <Xentinc@aol.com
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Date: 30 Nov 2006 06:04:32 -0800
Subject: Re: A view on the US role in Iraq
Now you have to figure out how to leave with the country in a much
worse state, and still call it a success
DFM
It would be stupid for us to "cut and run".
We own Iraq, simpleton, and we're there for several reasons.
One, we are there to insure that the Iraq government that ultimately
comes to power is friendly to the U.S.
Two, we are there to make sure Iraq's oil infrastructure gets on line
so that, combined with the recently online Caspian Sea pipeline, the
Saudi influence over OPEC will be diminished.
Three, in case you missed it, with Afghanistan in the East, our new
Central Asian friends in the North, Iraq in the West and the US Navy to
the South, an unfriendly Iran is completely surrounded.
Four, we are there to have a PERMANENT military foothold in a very
unstable region of the world which unfortunately has an inordinate
amount of the world's fuel - oil. Until we get a viable, alternative
fuel source up and running, it is critical to the GLOBAL economy (not
just the U.S.) that the world's second largest known oil field be
secure.
Welcome to reality
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Reality??????? Ohboyohboyohboy! How do you plan to insure a friendly Iraq
government? Those guys are doing civil war these days, or haven't you
heard?
Yes, it would be nice to limit Saudi influence over oil, since that was
where most of the 9/11 hijackers came from. It would be even nicer to take
steps to move away from dependence on oil, especially oil coming from
politically unstable regions. I keep asking: why is there no equivalent to
the Manhattan Project of World War II to develop alternative energies?
Who are our new Central Asian friends? If you are thinking of the assorted
dictatorships that inhabit that region, they are not friends, they are
allies of convenience. The minute that convenience ends, they will bail
out.
Donna Evleth
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