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To: Lou Weed who wrote (237150)	7/19/2007 10:52:33 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<<You don't actually think Iran is the way Iran is because.........Israel invaded the West Bank in 1967? do you?>> Absolutely not......why would I think that?!? It derives from your argument of the importance of ME stability to the world. Follow your own argument: You said the ME is unstable, and that ME instability matters to the US and the world economy due to the oil resources in the ME. Then you said "solving" the Pal-Israel conflict would improve ME stability. I presume you must mean it would improve the stability of the oil producing nations (primarily the Gulf sheikdoms, Iraq, Iran and Saudi), since oil is the reason the stability in the region is important. If you don't mean that, what is the benefit to the rest of the world of improving stability in the part of the ME that has no oil (Israel-Pal), if the oil possessing regiosn don't change a bit? If it doesn't improve the situation in the oil rich countries, solving the Israel-Pal thing is sorta nice, like solving the Sri Lanka civil war would be sorta nice, but in the big picture it's about as important as.....solving the Sri Lanka civil war - ie, not that important.