“Also very important is the geographic location — just across the canal is Saudi Arabia...”
Wow, who ever wrote this is not all that well acquainted with geography.
How embarrassing.
Indeed, i thought it was like elementary geography that the Suez Canal is between Egypt and the Sinai.
And what is with the assumption that Saudi Arabia could cut off all the access to our Mid East oil anyway ? They could force us not to stop using Iraqi Oil by getting it through the straights of Hormuz so we would still have Iraq as a reliable source for oil-which ironically remains one of the truly great effects of the Iraqi War. Nor could they force us away from the Suez Canal.
And also remember that even the most rabidly Islamic govt that could possibly rule Saudi Arabia is not going to just suddenly stop selling us oil when that is the sole thing that keeps them from becoming like Somalia. Anyone who really knows Saudi Arabia knows that the current govt is ideologically quite similar to Taliban but it didnt stop them.
I don't know who's worse, Bolling & FOX for putting it out there or Brady & Conservatives4palin for regurgitating it.
Doesn't do much for the credibility of either writer or their organizations.