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To: Win Smith who wrote (3350)	10/18/2001 12:01:27 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 51701

Hi Win. I'd read that piece -- too quickly, I might add -- and re-read it just now. Very sound. The last paragraph bears repeating. Also, I'd like to know how many people on this thread agree with the premise that the US's interests in the gulf are primarily based on the flow of oil for our use? "The American troops and warships in the gulf, the unpopularity of our presence there, the fragility of the regimes we support — these facts are not secrets, but among Americans they are not widely known. In the gulf, as in other places and at other times, America stands not for freedom but for stability. Its interest is in the unfettered flow of oil from the gulf to the industrialized world. Now, as in 1991, American policy makers will struggle to achieve this interest within the bounds of the forbearance of the American public. We should be aware that it is precisely that forbearance that the terrorists have begun to attack. That they have chosen a point of vulnerability is incontestable; that our leaders are prepared to defend against that political vulnerability — rooted in a longstanding refusal to speak honestly about the country's interests —even now is less clear. "