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2004-12-02 Arabia

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Posted by Fred 2004-12-02 9:53:52 PM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Soon, you'll achieve the stability you strive for,
in the only way that it's granted:
a place among the fossils of our time..."
-- Jefferson Airplane

Posted by mojo 2004-12-02 12:16:50 AM|| 2004-12-02 12:16:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 There are at least two ways to look at this:

1. stable in 2005...but not necessarily beyond.

2. the current situation in Saudi Arabia is inherently unstable, and the U.S. DoD intends to help S.A. achieve real stability.

Not to forget mojo's kind of stability. If I were a prince, I would be feeling distinctly uncomfortable just now. If I were one of the lower orders, uncomfortable wouldn't begin to describe it -- but I'm funny that way.

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-02 1:41:24 AM|| 2004-12-02 1:41:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I would consider fused sand and dirt the only stability I can accept.

These bastard are funding most of the crap going on all over teh world. Bush and Washington don't get it.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-12-02 1:41:36 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-12-02 1:41:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I think they get it, but can't put the moves on SA due to the situation with oil. As long as SA controls the biggest spigot, prudence recommends that Bush and Co. move carefully. Someone (I forget who) has noted that SA is slowly being totally surrounded by US proxies.

Posted by Ptah 2004-12-02 8:43:14 AM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2004-12-02 8:43:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm with SPoD. Stabilization should mean "get with the program or prepare to be a glass impurity". Another Saudi-heavy 9/11 is going to make Afghanistan/Iraq look like a footnote.

Posted by Tom 2004-12-02 8:51:44 AM|| 2004-12-02 8:51:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Dead = stable.

Posted by BH 2004-12-02 10:07:45 AM|| 2004-12-02 10:07:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Bingo.

Posted by Fred 2004-12-02 10:42:54 AM|| 2004-12-02 10:42:54 AM|| Front Page Top

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