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To: bentway who wrote (169982)	8/27/2005 9:29:35 AM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

<fanaticism> This also shows a level of commitment that should concern us -- our position is that it is worth being there to protect "our oil" so long as we can persuade Americans that we can kill them with a low risk of being killed ourselves (actually we send our children to die rather than going ourselves). This suggests an economic commitment -- we are paying a price that can be denominated in dollars. They have a far different calculus. They are willing to die to force the cost of American lives lost beyond the point where it is worth it for us to send our children (actually it is not "our children" but more often our neighbors children) to try to directly control "our oil" and dictate the course of human history in the region.