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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (11906)	11/29/2001 11:33:25 AM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 281500

As others on this thread said (I missed the first posting of the article), Margolis overplays the Russian advantage, but it's an interesting perspective nonetheless. Tom

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (11906)	12/12/2001 11:47:14 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 281500

The DEW Line, Redux - Stinkin' Sakhalin, Sour Gas and Screwin' Saudis Speaking as an American, and expressing more patriotic zealotry than usual, I submit the following: Lest any on the thread wonder what the cratering of concern on the part of Putin re the ABM Treaty nytimes.com is all about, here's a continuing clue..... forbes.com Today, on NPR, Tom Friedman, the NYTimes columnist nytimes.com speculated on the notion that we're about to replace Saudi Arabia with Russia as our preferred energy supplier. Seems likely to me. It's clear we (i.e. U.S. policy makers) have our collective head up our a$$ relying on either one of these completely unreliable partners. Alas, the notion of using the collective intelligence of our technology industries to avoid dependency on dysfunctional foreign suppliers seems to never quite get the consideration it deserves. While we fund some really questionable characters with billions that they can and will turn against us. Interesting, n'est pas?