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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8186)10/30/2001 5:09:05 AM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (5) of 281500
 
I understand your point, Maurice. But TVs are not vital to your survival. Oil is vital to the survival of the nation. If a nation/collection of nations deliberately sought to deprive the US of oil, it is an act of coercion at best, aggression at worst. If the intent was to destroy the US by depriving it of oil, then it is an act of aggression. Just the same as if I could control your supply of oxygen and cut it off with the sole intent to kill you. If I possessed the only supply of oxygen, and withheld it from you for my own purposes in order to kill you, it would be justifiable for you to attack me in order to preserve yourself.

Derek
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