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To: Earlie who wrote (298678)11/30/2004 9:47:46 PM
From: Michael Watkins  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
> A large military that exceeds a country's ability to maintain becomes a "mill stone" fairly quickly. <

And here's the interesting thing - a huge percentage of the annual cost of this military goes to ensuring that sufficient oil can be exploited around the world to feed it into our SUV's at 2$ a gallon.

I did the math recently: If US military spending and grants allocated to the Middle East were factored into the oil that came from there, every barrel would cost 166$.

And the gasoline from that oil would cost 6$ a gallon.

I probably missed 10 - 70 billion in my calculations, after all I can only add up the stuff which is disclosed. Who knows what the CIA, DIA, NRO, NSA, etc spend over there....

Anyway, I don't see how this is sustainable.
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