[Shermy]

There going to have a "ball" because they don't understand geography. They think the war is about "oil." But it isn't. No serious plan for transport through Afstan has been considered for years. The routes west had capacity, and are cheaper and more efficient. But for bureaucratic ossification and regional instability, the pipelines weren't hurriedly built. But Osama, to the detriment of his brethren and the rest of OPEC, has given everyone a "kick in the rear" to get moving, for various reasons. Kind of interesting that Osama, and thereby his Saudi backers, spent so much of their jihad effort in Chechnya and the Caucasus--which "just happened" to threaten the Caspian pipelines and scare away investors.

[Patria One]

The Chechen problem is 250 years old and Stalin tried to exterminate them unsuccessfully. Dishonest to lay that one on Saudi Arabia.

You might note that the Saudis saved Russia a great deal of embarrasment with that recent high-jacking.