Ok, so if these Colombian guerillas had half the firepower of the Mujahadeen, one-tenth the brains and experience of the Viet Cong, and even an ounce of the now archaic antipersonnel devices SargeK (the real SargeK) faced in Vietnam, that pipeline would be shut down indefinitely. Your whole case, in so derisively dismissing my point about the vulnerability of the supply of foreign oil, is that a pipe can be quickly repaired after it has been blown by some third raters in the Colombian hills. I humbly bow before your glittering genius. Give Sargek some heavy weight high tech ordinance and a crack commando regiment (or even Bin Laden) to work on those pipes and your myopic and self-serving sophistry would evaporate like dew in an August dawn. Such skill is readily available on the open market to anyone with the motivation and means to pay the going rate. The point of my post was apparently too subtle for even a man of your Appolonian grandeur to grasp. The supply of foreign oil can be tenuous at best in the face of determined, resourceful, and skillful saboteurs. I humbly beg your pardon and beseech your forgiveness, if I did not make that clear. Nevertheless, please Razorbak, don't insult everybody's intelligence with the argument that because pipes can be easily repaired in Colombia against such opposition, that they could be repaired with such facility against an even modestly sustained campaign by the US Air Force. That argument would strain the credulity of even the archetypal naïve, Dr. Pangloss. What is truly remarkable is that these Colombian dudes can stem the flow of oil for even ONE day, never mind 3.7. Something for the House of Saud to consider, n'est pas? Get another argument? Perish the thought! If anyone on this thread needs to keep a clear and open mind, or revise an ill considered and extreme position, I suspect it is you.
Now if you intend to respond with your usual passive-aggressive ridicule, kindly know that I found your last half-baked attempt at stand up comedy, lamentable at best. Tired old Letterman schtick does not become your vast intellectual skill, ingratiating personality, charming wit, and healthy positive outlook. Perhaps you should heed the advice given to every tenth rate Borscht circuit comedian who ever bombed in the Poconos.
Don't quit your day job, Pal.
BY THE WAY, Don Wolanchuck has more experience, knowledge, and insight into financial markets than you will ever posses in ten lifetimes. I'm really concerned about your welfare, considering your short positions. Do lighten up. I would feel sooooo bad seeing you in a homeless shelter, dribbling under your breath …………. “But the Prize, the Prize, I read it in the Prize.” That would be Dostoyevskian tragedy at it's worst. Do take care, won't you?
Cute? Yes as a matter of fact I rather am. Frustrated? By the likes of you? Hardly! I've never ever been frustrated by a Garbage Peddler, even now!
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