Posted on 10/31/2001 6:24:45 PM PST by Brian Allen
This statement alone is so far out in left field, that reading anything else is a waste of time.
We sure have a huge difference in the definition of "secular".
Mine requires the absence of all direct or indirect religious authority or influence.
Calling it the "Democratic Republic of Iran" doesn't make it so...
FReegards
It would be a mistake for Americans to conclude that a new Arab assault on Israel means that the United States is directly under attack. The United States may sympathize with the Israelis but it isn't obligated or committed to intervening militarily to rescue the Israelis. Israel is not a NATO ally of the United States. The only intervention that would be broadly popular in the United States would be of a diplomatic or political nature. For the United States to move militarily against Muslim countries or entities, the national interest and security of the U.S. and its citizens would have to be directly involved.
I believe what's keeping a lid on oil prices now is the alternative threat. In particular the $30 ceiling might be because at that price shale oil becomes viable. There's more shale oil in Alberta than there is oil in Saudi Arabia.
An experimental shale oil plant in Australia is even making a profit running at 60% capacity. They have a few environmental probs at present but looks like they'll find a solution soon.
The Blame America First crowd, like Ron Paul, blame our intervention in Muslim countries for 9/11, but they never explain why there was militant Islamic terrorism centuries before the U.S.A. was even born.
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