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To: jlallen who wrote (1446)	6/5/2007 3:43:59 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4152

"Our economic well being (and that of the world economy) IS part of our national security....a strong economy makes a strong and secure country.....that's why oil is such a choke point...." So, if China needs food and we don't want to sell it at what they think is reasonable price, do they have the right to nuke us and take the land to grow it? What if some country thinks they can't afford $60 oil? Do they have the right to invade Saudi Arabia and conscript the oil for their country, nuking anyone who stands in their way? What exactly is it that gives us the right to kill our way to continued prosperity in the name of national defense? And, having done so, what would stop the next superpower from killing us under the same principle. And how does that fit with the concept we trumpet about every man having the right to be free? Maybe we should say that every man has the right to freedom of choice in things such as contracts and dealings with the US as long as his exercise of that right doesn't interfere with our right to a strong national economy inherent to our national security. What you say makes no ethical sense and stands the rule of law on its head, replacing it with the rule of the jungle. Ed