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2014-12-27 International-UN-NGOs

U.S. should help protect energy assets in the Eastern Med

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Posted by Steve White 2014-12-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Time for Rent-A-Nimitz.

Posted by Shipman 2014-12-27 06:30|| 2014-12-27 06:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Or, use a fraction of the that it'll cost to subsidize domestic production.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-12-27 09:03|| 2014-12-27 09:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Alternate link.

Link fixed. Thanks, Besoeker!

-- TW at 10 a.m. ET

Posted by Besoeker 2014-12-27 09:07|| 2014-12-27 09:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Nah... The plan will be to pay off the terrorist states with two or the times the cost.

Only to have those states use the money to finance ~~terrorist~~ 'militant groups'. (which the media will call freedom fighters)

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-12-27 09:11|| 2014-12-27 09:11|| Front Page Top

#5 If they can't defend them they're not really theirs.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2014-12-27 10:27|| 2014-12-27 10:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Easy solution. Move the drilling and processing assets from Nigeria and Congo to east Med. The people who work on them will consider it an improvement, and they're used to dealing with iffy situations.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-12-27 11:34|| 2014-12-27 11:34|| Front Page Top

#7 There goes the left. It amazes me how they screamed like we were raping babies when we went to Iraq. All the war for oil crap. Not they are rationalizing it away as the right thing to do. Gotta love the irony.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-12-27 13:02|| 2014-12-27 13:02|| Front Page Top

#8 "Blood for oil." But your premise is pretty much accurate.

Posted by Pappy 2014-12-27 14:24|| 2014-12-27 14:24|| Front Page Top

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