To: dr_who'Nuff said?You misunderstand.
When our strategic oil reserve is sufficiently depleted, and we no longer have sufficient POL to project force, Middle East oil production gets interrupted.
No strategic reserves. Minimal domestically produced oil. No ME production.
The US will be rendered irrelevant in maintaining world peace.
The butcher’s bill for the global war resulting from that “mis”calculation will be of Biblical proportions.
74 posted on 2/25/2009, 7:28:07 PM by null and void (We are now in day 36 of our national holiday from reality.)
The carriers are Nuke Powered.
It is a factor.
Out subs are Nuke Powered.