And the US would be quite happy to back "anti-moderns" in the game - they have been all along in the Middle East.
As for oil, well, what isn't about oil in the modern world?
Next question: Why has Operation Enduring Bases gone forward under the ideological banner of a Christian-Judeo Crusaderism whose hallmark is a vitriolic racist hatred of Arabs?
It didn't have to be that way, either, any more than there had to be an occupation, rather than a continuation of the cruel war that Clinton/Gore waged against the Iraqi people for eight years, whose enormous human toll was so infamously "worth it". Churchill would have been proud, in either case.
-Brad Mayer -------------------------------
Except everyone has left the incompetent and rapidly aging gerontocracy of Saudi Arabia out of the discussion.
Imagine SA going offline for a year or two due to internal turmoil in, say, 2009.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a base or two in a neighboring country that can rapidly deploy in the service of a faction that isn't virulently anti-US and/or anti-modernity?
I want to know what was in those 28 pages..............and a lot more................
Ian
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