[Amerigomag]

From my perspective the article has merit.

The problem with the author's premise is that he does not believe that this financial threat is also a real strategic threat. Like so many who attempt to deceive, he uses the time honored ploy of not even questioning that this threat is sufficent to go to war.

From my perspective this is another good justifcation to go to war and it'll be added to my talking points.

Thanks for the post.

[Jhoffa_]

I think it has merit also.

It would merit the left greatly, as it's much more plausible than the "oil buddies" scenario.

IMO, The problem with the "strategic threat" argument is that I don't believe a majority of Americans will concur that this is sufficient cause to go to war.

If the author is right about the motivation, then we would be doing nothing more than forcing others to prop up our economy at gun point. Telling them, in effect: "Use dollars or we will take over your country and install someone who will.."

I don't think you can sell that to Americans by and large. I don't think it will fly, as we are a moral people.

I know I wouldn't support it.

[oceanview]

Well, if the dollar falls another 40% against the Euro as this theory goes, European imports to the US would essentially drop to zero. What is the EU going to do without being able to export to the US? They have no internal consumer economies of their own to consume the goods they produce, where will they send them?

Also, where will all these Euros come from? The EU would have to start issuing Euros to exchange for all the dollars being repatriated.

If this concept were indeed an engineered scheme by Iraq and the EU to destroy the US economy, while at the same time using domestic terror against us, I certainly would support it using the military to thwart it. And so would most Americans in the face of an economic depression.