Showdown at the Saudi Soda Fountain: Cast your vote!
Filed under: Middle East
President Bush is in Saudi Arabia pleading with the oligarchy there to increase oil supplies and thereby reduce prices, which have caused an inflationary spike in the U.S. economy (the worst in nearly two decades). This imperils not only U.S. but world economic security. Bush's words alone have already caused a drop in the oil market. He's offered arms sales as a carrot. But the Oil Minister has responded cagily: "We will raise production when the market justifies it." If they refuse, should we simply seize their oil fields? Whatever you may think of the morality of military action, it would be child's play to do it. Saudi Arabia isn't Iraq, it's a largely fictional, sparsely populated country that has alienated itself from the Arab world by, ironically, supposedly befriending the United States, who it now seems more and more to be stabbing in the back. Annexing it would have the additional attractions of liberating its repressed women, cutting of funds to international terrorism and shoring up Iraq's southern flank. Perhaps its something both liberals and conservatives can agree on? If inflation spirals out of control in the U.S. that will drag down the entire world economy.
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