Fwd: more on oilism thesis

[Hakki Alacakaptan]

Syria has made a living, until the US moved into Saudi, of squeezing the
Saudis for protection money. Iraq is still a loose cannon. Saddam is far
from "destroyed". The Iraqi military is still very much operational. It made
an armored foray into Jordan only last July.

Hakki Alacakaptan

 || -----Original Message-----

 || From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com

 || [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Michael Pollak

 ||

 || On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Rakesh Bhandari wrote:

 ||

 || I thought this was an excellant and interesting post, Rakesh.

 || But I have

 || one question:

 ||

 || > Yet the House of Saud probably could not survive a day without US

 || > support,

 ||

 || This is often asserted, but I wonder what we provide to the

 || House of Saud

 || that is so indispensible that they would tumble if we withdrew it.

 || Destroying Saddam in 1991 was certainly indispensable to their continued

 || existence, no dispute there.  But wasn't that a one-off that's now off?
(...)

 || Michael