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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (7900)	12/23/2006 6:21:05 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

If we go home and the ME goes out of control, we are inconvenienced for a brief period of time. We lose (the world loses) 25% of world oil output. Crude goes to $200 a barrel. We pay $5 or 6$ a gallon. We go into full conservation mode. Alternative fuel becomes competitive. Other oil producing countries step up production. My.. you're quite the elitist, now aren't you?? Yeah.. Americans might be able to afford $5-6/barrel, but what about the rest of the developing world?? They are FAR MORE DEPENDENT on cheap fossil fuels than the developed West (where we're becoming more of an information and service economy). Hell, as it stands right now, many of the governments in these poorer, developing countries subsidize the price of their fuel so that their citizens don't revolt against them (look at what happened in Venezuela when they tried to reduce subsidies on gasoline). And what about all the poor people in the US who depend upon their vehicles to arrive at their minimum wage jobs? How will this impact them? Personally, I have no problem buying Mid-East oil, SO LONG as the proceeds are used wisely to create diversified economies that promote moderate, legitimate, and tolerant societies with governments accountable to the needs of their population. And Mary.. you shouldn't have a problem with it either. It's no different than buying manufactured goods from Asia, England, or Germany.. But what SHOULD (but obviously doesn't) concern you is paying Islamo-Fascist governments $200/barrel for the oil they seek to control. Exactly what do you think those Jihadist governments would do with this newly found wealth? Do you suddenly think that they will go away and leave the world in peace? They won't use this financial wealth to finance Islamic revolutions throughout the Muslim world? Mary, you seem to be quite concerned about the US having a "strategy" in this conflict in Iraq, and confrontation against militant Islamo-Fascists. But how can we have a strategy when people like you don't even understand that strategy of the enemy? If you're not willing to thwart the enemy's attempts to control that part of the world, then no strategy we undertake is going to work. Hawk