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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR

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To: zonder who wrote (7005)	2/10/2003 8:00:35 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) of 25898

The US is a major industrial country. Its oil industry is a very large component of the international industry. In oil service, US companies are even more dominant. Plus the US is a major importing country. Just the facts of life. So anything involving oil or gas anywhere in the world is likely to have some American involvement somewhere along the line. Its also true the Persian Gulf is of great importance to the world since so much oil is imported there. The US as a major consumer has intervened before to prevent that region from being dominated by forces hostile to it and will again if necessary. However, its inane to say the US is involved in some imperial adventure in Kuwait, Iraq, or anywhere else there. What the US wants is not to seize control of resources and keep them for itself but to keep the world markets open and free. Back in the colonial age, powerful nations thought they had to have colonies to get access to resources. The effort to seize resources was a major source of war. But in a secure world where even small weak countries are safe and independent, all have access to resources via the marketplace.

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