To: TigerLikesRooster
The 82nd from above, a couple of Marine divisions from the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, and Viola! Billions of gallons for Joe Sixpack & Suzy Soccer Mom. Who could stop us? LOL
9 posted on
06/21/2008 9:50:13 PM PDT by
2ndDivisionVet
(McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only the Marxist Obama can!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Let me expand and indulge in my dream:
And Hashemites get to rule Mecca again. Saudis go back to their Bedouin existence. Wahabi-sponsored schools, Mosques, terrorist cells lose their funding.
11 posted on
06/21/2008 9:56:35 PM PDT by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The 82nd from above, a couple of Marine divisions from the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, and Viola! Billions of gallons for Joe Sixpack & Suzy Soccer Mom. Who could stop us? LOL
Except that oil is a fungible commodity, so if you want Joe Sixpack instead of his Chinese counterpart to have the oil you'd first need to end international trade, impose a isolationist economic policy, followed by the collapse of the U.S. economy and then comes tuesday...
But seriously: For the direct (military) and indirect (economic repercussions) cost of such an endeavour, you could make nuclear fusion work (ridiculously cheap at approx. 50 billion), plaster Nevada with solar power plants, and throw in a lot of maglevs, too.
Such a war would in fact be a giant subsidy (for oil-based enterprises).
47 posted on
06/22/2008 7:26:52 AM PDT by
wolf78
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