From: Reeza! <howree@cable.navy.mil>
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 17:41:37 +0800
To: Jim Choate <cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: Forwarded mail...
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At 10:05 PM 12/24/98 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
>Forwarded message:
>
>> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 19:50:34 -0600 (CST)
>> From: Missouri FreeNet Administration <measl@mfn.org>
>> Subject: Re: I must admit. . .
>
>> On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Reeza! finally got to the point of the matter:
>> 
>> <massive snip>
>> :, that does not mean I'm willing to allow one
>> :expansionist dictator to sanction another country and gain control of
>> :enough of the worlds oil supply to impact the well-being of my country.
>> 
>> I believe this is the the only true argument here.  The US (and you) are
>> not "pleased" with the fact that the one place on the planet that has the
>> worlds largest oil deposits is not beholden to the USG.
>
>Actualy there are equivalent oil and gas deposits in SE Asia and Antartica.
>But they doesn't belong to the USG either.
>
>Of course the point is valid. Though it almost begs the question of why in
>such a situation there is not a more powerful search for alternatives. There
>are actualy very few technologies that care whether oil or gas is used in
>energy production or some entirely different process.
>

Which point? Yours, or J.A.'s???
I thought the point wasn't about control of that segment of the oil supply,
I was voicing my personal opinion there. Rather, the point was about the
sanction of a sovereign neighbor nation, and our (The US's) actions in
forcing Hussein back as part of a world community effort. Whether our
"sticking our noses into it" as J.A. said earlier, was justifiable. 

I agree we should be pursuing alternative energies with greater diligence,
I'd like to see what the petroleum companies have on their shelves and are
suppressing.

Reeza!
 
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