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Defender always wins? (Was: Re: on contradictions and s

Howard Brazee howard at brazee.net
Wed Feb 16 11:00:59 PST 2005

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:40:16 -0800 (PST), Philip Hart
<philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:

> But, anyway, even if I think that those on the pro-torture side of the
> aisle (see the Gonzalez confirmation or
> http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2005/02/like_something_.html)
> will acknowledge that we would have been much less likely to have gone
> into Iraq if it weren't for its oil and its proximity to a lot more oil,
> I don't think oil was high on the list of reasons we went in.

Oil rich countries also have a bunch of dissatisfied unfulfilled youth who
are willing to become terrorists.    Poor despotic countries have better
things to do than to export terrorism across the world.

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