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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (61953)	4/14/2005 5:00:33 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

What's my concern ? Mostly - 1) Making money in the real world. 2) Having the US climb down from being an unsustainable Imperial power. This mostly follows the "Imperial Overreach" arguments. 3) Reclamiming freedoms in the US - which is strongly related to avoiding (or at least reducing) Empires, and their economic and political consequences. ******* What you might find useful would be tracking US proxies and Allies - especially those who get substantial US financing and assistance, however public or hidden. Turkey, Korea, Israel, and now some of the 'Stans have been in these roles. For the purposes of (1) following mineral related political activity in Africa has been useful. Since almost all the players are the old colonial powers - UK, France, Spain, sometimes the Germans - with now the Russians, occasional Chinese and South Africans - that might not be of much use to you. Volunteers/Mercenaries - this seems to be a resurgent trend - the outsourcing of war.