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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Bilow who wrote (54479)10/24/2002 4:39:45 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
>> disengaging from the Middle East cannot eliminate the terror problem, but can only reduce it<<

Maybe so but we can't disengage from the Middle East. No matter how much Buchanan and you piss and moan about it, the EU and Japan are just as dependent on oil as we are, and nobody is walking away from that.

Since we can't disengage from the Middle East, we have to engage it well.

Oil is a commodity. In an ideal world, buying oil would be a business transaction, like buying food.

But the governments of the Middle East figured out they had some economic leverage and are using that to bootstrap political leverage. Lucky for us, no one country is the only game in town so we can play them against each other.

But we can't walk away.
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