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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (149345)	10/27/2004 6:40:20 PM
From: Keith Feral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Not myopic, just interested in my own self interests like 99% of the people in this world. I will cheer for a US company like Qualcomm any day of the week. I hope that Exxon gets the next big chunk of the Russian oil market instead of a French oil company. I hope we kick the tar out of the terrorists that keep kidnapping innocent people in Iraq and cutting their heads off. Economic survival is about competition. The US needs to attack new opportunities like the Russian oil market with absolute determination. It may not be our God given right to win, but it is our God given right to try to win. The rules of competition is where economic realities end and philisophical debates begin. Historically speaking, war was not such a off limits topic. During the past 50 years, everyone assumed that nuclear weapons would eliminate the future of conflict. However, the argument does not apply to tribes of terrorists that roam through the Middle East slaughtering every innocent person in their way. In a similar sense, global peace fostered a warm fuzzy attitude that countries would cooperate. Looking at the division of interests in Iraq, it is obvious that some countries preferred the status quo because it served their economic interests, especially France and Russia.