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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jficquette who wrote (5621)	9/1/2004 12:53:04 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

So you say the US is being held hostage by Israel's nukes? Come on, give us all a break! That's typical Israeli B.S. or American pro-Jewish cowpie. Israel cannot use her nukes with impunity. Israel's WMD guarantees AMD (assured mutual destruction)! LOL The US is greedy for oil and so it wants to stay in there for as long as possible no matter what its own people or what others elsewhere have to say. If the US leaves the ME, there are lots of other players who would be happy to exploit the oil wealth for the Arabs and for themselves. In this light, the US is not as indispensable as you like to think it is for the Arabs. If ever the US "leaves" the ME it will not be for long, imho. The problem is the US finds itself constrained to remain in the ME not only to ensure a steady supply of oil for its needs but also to be able to maintain its hegemony over the rest of the world. To justify its presence in the ME, the US will come up with ingenious (but really quite specious/spurious) reasons for its presence there. To help ensure total or partial success for its plans, be they transparent or Machiavellian, the US will have need for Israel as an indispensable ally or as an ever alert watchdog or as a super-special colony or a quasi-51st State of the USA, imho. To be sure, such a scenario will not go well with the Arabs. Result: endless whining, bickering and squabbles and armed conflicts that will quite likely culminate in the fulfillment of Armageddon.