Posted on 08/22/2006 1:02:24 AM PDT by 20mm lib babies in city dumps
Wow, I'm impressed when someone comes up with an original idea.
The Middle East isn't worth the trouble. I don't know if you've been there, but it's nowhere I'd want to colonize. Most of it is general wasteland, whereas some garden spots, like Qatar, looks like the surface of Mars. Once you get north of Baghdad it's pleasent enough, if you like the Iowa-Nebraska kinda look.
Still, I'm all for the alternate fuel Manhattan project. I'd rather spend 500 billion on that than to keep bombing the place. Once the oil stops fueling their economies, they'll fall back on their second most lucrative industry, which appeared to me to be sheepherding. Shortly thereafter, the entire region will become as important as Tanzania, and we'll never hear from them again.
The only time all those countries will be on the same page will be at the end of times. Not a bad plan though.
Your ad hominom comments aside, the Russians would be able to be enlisted precisely because of their irritation with the Chechans, and it is a good point that Japan could also be enlisted.
Thank you
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