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Agreed. No disputing your point. The Sheikhs will be in trouble.
However what can you do if the entire islamic world joins hands against
the sheikhs and their patrons in the West ? The sheikhs get
overthrown? Also what happens with the muslim population floating
around the world, sizeable numbers in Europe and North America?
Clash of civilsations? Osama wins.........
Rakesh
At 10:47 AM 9/22/01 -0500, you wrote:
Rakesh,
You bring up interesting questions. I have one of my own:
Suppose, just as a hypothetical, that the western economies all in
unison
overnight quit buying mideast oil supplies? Instantly. Total
boycott.
I can guess the objections that might be offered about our dependence
on
their oil, etc. But bear with me and consider the proposition.
Those suppliers have one, ONE, product, and no other natural resources
or
economic substance of any kind. The western economies have all the
other
natural resources, and lots of oil besides. Yes there would be
supply
disruptions, and inconveniences to the west, but the mideast oil
producers
would all experience total disruption of the only product they can
sell.
What will they do with all the oil they have to pump to keep the
machinery
working? Fill up 5 liter petrol cans and line them up alongside their
roads?
A little tactical enforcement of their economic isolation, like sinking
all
the oil tankers that insist on filling up at their docks, and cutting
off
the pipelines, may eventually cause them to show up, hat in hand,
looking
for a deal.
There is plenty of oil available to the west, and the revenue that the
oil
sheiks suddenly don't receive will strengthen the western economies. I
am
willing to put up with the inconvenience of buying oil from Russia
and
Argentina and North Sea and Mexico and Alaska and California and
whobody
else is producing oil in the west.
Like the man said, either they are for U.S., or they are for the
terrorists.
Michael
PS: It is easy to guess why it won't work, in a reactionary way, but
how
might it work, actually?
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