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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (18210)	12/5/2006 6:15:35 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

lorne, your hypothesis has legs; as excerpted from the Gates confirmation hearing today: he sounds as though he is leading up to a fresh White House conception of Persian Gulf strategy - namely that America’s security interests do not warrant any further involvement in the Gulf region. Since it does not depend on Arabian oil like China, Japan, India and other Far Eastern nations, why should the US saddle itself with the protection of the region’s oil resources and routes? This shift in strategic emphasis, if confirmed, would have a profound influence – not only on Israel, but also on Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the oil emirates. But they, unlike Israel, are not caught unawares, having prepared themselves for the past year by opening up alternative sources of weapons and making massive transfers of assets to Asian markets.