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To: Win Smith who wrote (35534)	7/31/2002 9:52:12 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Win, Whats all this 'War Now! local' stuff. I thought you lived in peace-loving New Zealand :-) More seriously - a couple of people I know lost relatives on 9/11 and their sentiment is pretty brutal. Iraqi rhetoric, the funding of suicide bombers and the Prague connection etc has built up a pretty difficult public opinion for doves or realists to work in. A lot of folks would just like to withdraw and go isolationist. Remember we only get a very smal percentage of our energy supplies from the ME. Most of it goes to Japan and Europe. If you consider the military cost of maintaining the peace since the Gulf War - the US is subsidizing the EU and Japan to a major degree. That same money invested here could unlock a lot of energy. Some estimates put ME gas (with the military cost built in) at 4-5 dollars a gallon. Shale and tar sands are recoverable at half of that. The attitude towards Europeans in partiucular is getting bad - because they spend 10 cents to our dollar on defense and then want to have a say. They are like a bunch of elite 5th avenue types looking down their noses at the way the NYPD handles crime in the Bronx. But they love the NYPD when their asses are on the line. From my writing - you can probably tell that I would love to tell most Europeans to stuff it and just protect America first, but thats not realistic. The world is globalized and we will feel it if Japan and the EU go through a prolonged slump due to a disruption in their ME oil supply. John

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