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To: michael97123 who wrote (252289)12/25/2007 10:40:00 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Respond to of 281500
 
Probably would have forced the west to intervene and take the oil and thus we probably would have the same bimbo-bin laden eruption we now have

No, why? They would still have needed to sell the oil, even more so. The binladenism might have occurred regardless. The Arabs wail about US military interference, but it's really globalization that is pushing our success into their faces, and they can't stand it.