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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (18675)	2/13/2002 1:30:54 AM
From: SirRealist	Read Replies (1) of 281500

So, at the end of the day, all you have left is oil. Their need to sell it and our need to buy it. That plus their goodly contributions to US politicians, their purchases of arms which sustain US defense corporations, their purchases of higher education which sustain US universities, their natural gas deals which sustain the oil corporations, and the sheer weight of their investments in US markets from stocks & bonds to real estate (which with modest withdrawals could rock those markets). I'm afraid the intertwinings are too great to dismiss it as all about oil now. That's where it began, but it is far more complex now. Considering their interests and ours, it seems likely we will pressure them to cut back financial ties to the violent extremists, and in return, we will ease out our presence in their country. Longer term, the oil reserves of Kazakhstan and alternate energy technologies will ultimately ease us out of that unwholesome relationship. But near term, the Saudi bankroll is a very sticky web that cannot be escaped without changing the underbelly of US politics and some major market underpinnings.

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