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To: The Philosopher who wrote (6071)	1/24/2004 12:59:54 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) of 20773

MAD only worked because of the similarity in culture of the US and the USSR. Like it or not, we have far more in common with them than any non-secular, Islamic Republic. Look at our allies there: Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Oh boy! Can anyone remember the grinning princes of Saud when we were squirming in 1973 and 1979 oil embargos? I guess not. Seems like in 30 years someone's priority might have been to switch us off of oil imports. But what would you expect from a bunch of Texas oil tycoons? That we supplied Hussein with chemical precursors and other materials for WMDs (or allowed 3rd parties to do it) as a matter of misplaced diplomatic expediency is also unquestionable. Where do the counter-insurgents get their surface to air shoulder-fired weapons to shoot down our aircraft? CIA left overs from Afghanistan and Chechnya. The fact that Israel has orbital capability (aided by our technology transfers) AND nukes makes them a more serious threat to mainland US than a dozen Saddams. Anyone in the American cabinet who doesn't believe that right-wing elements in the Zionist state don't have a contingency plan to land one on us if we abandoned them to their neighbors is severely decoupled from reality, IMO.

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