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Politics : High Tolerance Plasticity
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To: Think4Yourself who wrote (7868)9/14/2001 11:44:38 AM
From: que seria   of 23153
 
JQP: Yep. We don't belong there, shouldn't be there, and
have broken our promise in keeping a base in Saudi Arabia.

But now: All the better to bomb from. Then let's leave. We've already done too much retreating from threats.

The irony of our interventions is their counter-productiveness in achieving the goal (at least, long term) of oil access via regional stability through friendly rulers. Oil is fungible; I see little reason to believe the Arabs would or could have severely limited US access to it over any extended period if we did no more than give Israel money and sell arms. Now we face terrorism and the likely fall of Saudi and other oil reserves into the hands of those who are ideologically opposed to trade with us.

E&P companies with primarily non-Arab assets ought to be at a premium when markets reopen.
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