From: John Cuccia 

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:08:17 +0000, Adam
<""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote:

>John Cuccia wrote:
>> On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:20:18 -0500, Monte Davis
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> That the war hawks were too fucking stupid to realize it then, and are
>>> now fondling the notion as a shiny new "option," is
sadly revealing.
>>
>> I wonder if they've awakened yet to the fact that the Saudis aren't
>> likely to sit on their hands if we decide to "back" the
Shi'ites in
>> their pogrom?
>>
>>
>What'll they do apart from trying to pay someone else to intervene for them?

That's probably enough.  They can afford *lots* of intervention.

But, they also threatened to crash the price of oil to cut of Iran's
income.  I think that the oilmen in the White House are more threatened by
that than by the Saudi's unquestioned ability to buy an escalation of the
violence.

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