[bnelson44]

This theory fails when it is noted that the Saudi Royal family was and is against our liberation of Iraq.

[Skylab]

He was wrong in all his predictions. Gold is not at $600+, there isn't a stock-market bubble, the strong-dollar policy has been abandoned, and the US trade-deficit is bigger than ever.

[Fee]

Neo Conservatives are actually Human Rights Advocates of the Democratic Party except unlike Democrats they believe in the use of miitary force to change the world. The problem with this approach is we needed a large military to carry out such a world policy. That is my only critique of the GWB foreign policy, you cannot fight a 2.5 war strategy with a 1.5 war military.

[chaos theory]

Maybe the Saudis would have been fine, but not under the US dollar. If Saddam was in power, his country would be under control and spewing out more oil than any other country. Saddam would have most definitely pandered to the Euros and the Saudis would have to follow. In 2003 the Euro dollar was already worth 25% more tah the USD. When we invaded Iraq foreign investment went up substantially into the U.S.A. It made a huge difference.