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To: epicure who wrote (40085)	7/30/2007 3:43:35 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543488

Because Bush believes we are in the "opening chapters of a great ideological struggle" where we will be fighting our enemies on multiple battlefields as far as the eye can see. Shipping more overpriced hardware to Saudi is a minor footnote in his view of the game. What resemblance that view bears to reality (and blowbacks) is another question altogether. It's not "evidence-based" reasoning so what can you do?

To: epicure who wrote (40085)	7/30/2007 4:11:27 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 543488

And why can't we learn this? Why? Why? It's so obvious, and yet so lost on so many people. Well, the reasoning of the Bush people is well beyond me so I can't comment seriously. My first reaction is that it's sort of auto pilot stuff. We've always given the Saudis arms as part of the larger oil bargain. So the Bush people just keep doing it. If it's something like Arkin claims, not serious armament because the Saudi leadership worries about the coup possibilities of a well armed army, then it's an arms sale deal that profits American arms dealers or whatever. And not much else. Actually, the event that interested me the most was the Japanese leadership crisis. The NYTimes article treated it as something of a repudiation of the new chauvinism Abe is fostering.