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To: RetiredNow who wrote (218712)	2/11/2005 4:42:24 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574841

As a realist, you must realize that "reducing our oil consumption and building new technologies to replace oil and gas" is not going to happen tomorrow or next year. Therefore, your suggestion of putting a sanction on Saudi Arabia is not a logical one. we need to go after the hardcases like Iran first and then we can go after the Saudi Arabia's Just out of curiousity, what makes you think Iran is more of a "hardcase" than Saudi Arabia? And with Pakistan and Saudi, we won't have to invade Pakistan is a nuclear power, so you might like to refrain yourself from invading that particular country out of a whim like "they are a hardcase", if you don't wish to glow in the dark. Invading SA, as I explained above, is not a real option at this point. Instead, we can just exert a hell of a lot of diplomatic pressure, because they are already our partners to some degree. I doubt if "diplomatic pressure" will work at all in the case of Saudi Arabia especially. The deal between US and SA is simple - we guarantee you undisrupted flow of oil at reasonable prices, and you be real nice to us and support our corrupt little family in brutally ruling this country. Both parties have been sticking to the plan, even after a band of Saudis killed thousands of Americans on 9/11.