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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (132725)	5/12/2004 7:35:50 PM
From: h0db	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Ignore it all you want h0db.. But the Mid-East is involved in a tremendous baby-boom which has yet to determine what side they want to be on.. The only chance we have is to be more involved in providing political, social, and economic solutions (or the perception of such) than are the Islamist militants with their "return to the way of Allah" mentality. I don't have a problem with most of that, but I think it will be more difficult after this than otherwise. We need credibility above all. What troubles me most about the war is how we got there; I don't think that the arguments advanced to justify it are as good as those you have posted here. When we invaded Iraq, we committed the first act of Empire, albeit a defensive one. The oil is important, getting more so every day. China alone has become a huge consumer of oil; in the span of a decade, it went from being a net producer of energy to the second largest importer of oil in the world. This is an increasingly scarce commodity and access to it will be a crucial condition of economic and military power, even more so than in the past.