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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
GLD 379.87+0.4%Nov 11 4:00 PM EST
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To: RJA_ who wrote (7812)7/26/2006 5:34:51 PM
From: Seeker of Truth  Read Replies (1) of 217705
 
I don't think Nyquist's rant is a reliable guide to the future.
He appears quite ignorant. It isn't only the ayatollahs and Al Qaeda that want the US out of the middle east. It is almost all Arabs and almost all Iranians, whether they like the regime that rules them or not. If the US left Iraq to itself and really retreated from the Middle East the whole crisis would evaporate.
Come on, no backward dictatorship like that of Iran will be able to develop nuclear weapons and send them to the US. The smartest young people emigrate. How long could Russia drive up the price of oil? A cessation of oil from the middle east would at last force everybody's attention on ethanol, coal, biomass etc. You'd see an undreamed of attention to conservation. Once, I remember well, Japan attacked and then to my amazement Hitler a few days later declared war. The US was simply not ready by a long shot. Hundreds of ships were sunk in the first year of the war. Britain's invention of radar and its perfection in the US finally saved the day and the Allies started to sink the submarines faster than the Nazis could make them. Civilian production of cars etc. shut down completely. Everybody concentrated on what the forces needed.
I'm not saying that Sunnis and Shias would become friends. But their battles would decline in intensity and anyway be
moved to page 23 in Western newspapers.
Russia, atheist or Christian, doesn't want one more nuclear power on its border.
Seeker of Truth
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