-- James A. Donald wrote:
The US government should expose and condemn these objectionable practices, subvert moderately objectionable regimes, and annihilate more objectionable regimes. The pentagon should deprive moderately objectionable regimes of economic resources, by stealing their oil, destroying their water systems, and cutting off their trade and population movements with the outside world.
Thomas Shaddack
Meanwhile, the world will get pissed, Arabian Bloc will finally agree on the concept of Monetary Jihad and switch from dollar-per-barrel to euro-per-barrel and later perhaps even to a gold-backed Islamic Dinar.
If the US has Saudi and Iraqi oil reserves, this would not be any big problem.
Arabs have difficulties to agree on something, but give them an enemy and they flock together
Like they flocked together over Israel? They unite only in words, not deeds. Look at the civil war now going on Iraq. The Iraqi insurgency has not united, but rather are busy killing each other.
Other countries will stop caring about unilateral embargos and will trade with the affected areas anyway, to great dismay of American planners.
I had in mind not paper embargos which no one ever observes anyway, least of all those proclaiming them, but rather the mining of ports, and key roads at the borders, the destruction of airports, planes, ships, and vehicles travelling on those roads. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG PqA9fV/rkBDLiQiY7Z7tvI+4ZspciWsOt6Ks6eJs 4QCdWD0mLhMSVH+y9iESXjeIvzTOTeI0fTqxiC5zy