> Eubulides wrote:
>
> >Can you say Firestone tires? :-)
>
> Is there a place on earth that doesn't have some valuable resource?
> It was some coal mine in Serbia, a pipeline in Afghanistan, and now
> rubber trees in Liberia? These explanations all seem after the fact.
>
> Doug
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Hence the smiley regarding the easy reductivism of the assertion.