Sigh.

GAVIN





on 2/11/03 11:27 PM, Daniel Pearlman at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> gely a matter of controlling (much of)
> the world's oil, as I think it is, then I think the administration's fear of
> oil's falling under the control of Al Qaeda is the driving force for war.  I
> believe that Bush & Co. do see very clearly the inevitable fall of all
> those fat-assed Arab monarchies, maybe in the next decade or so,
> as they cave in to the militant Islam in their midst--and that will mean,
> of course, Al Qaeda's economic stranglehold over the U.S. and the
> rest of the Western world.  Israel or no Israel, Al Qaeda's declared
> purpose is the minimization of Western cultural influence, and there'd
> be no better way than holding oil as economic trump card.  Gentlemen,
> moral issues take a back seat here.  We are witnessing a life and death
> struggle for the survival of the Western way of life against an absolutely
> relentless militant Islam that is well-"oiled" with the economic means
> to do us great damage.
>
> I think that in 30 to 50 years, when all our vehicles run on hydrogen, we'll
> have abandoned the Middle East, which will revert almost wholly to desert.
> But  worry about the period of transition from now to 2030.
>
> ==Dan