A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:

On 11-Feb-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

Not true, but even it it were true, so what? Oil is a strategic resource.
Every nation on the planet wants to secure strategic resources for its own
use. That's the nature of nations. That's the history of the planet.

That's why Japan trashed US bases in Pearl Harbor and the Philippines
in Dec, 1941. I suppose you think that's justified.

In their view it was. Unfortunately, they grossly miscalculated our ability
and willingness to defend our resources. That's why, in fact, we intend to
maintain military superiority over every other nation on earth, no matter
what...so that we have the capacity to destroy any nation that tries to
invade us to appropriate our resources. And by having that capacity, and by
being willing to project military force outside our national boundaries at a
moment's notice, we deter attempts by others to use military force, not only
against the US, but against our allies. Thus, we rarely have to exercise
military force, because the threat is usually sufficient.

Every once and a while, however, some tyrant or terrorist somewhere gets it
in his pinhead that he can challenge our military without consequence and we
have to go exterminate them.

Such events are rare, but also serve as object lessons to other wannabe
tyrants not to screw with the US or its allies, because we can, and will,
kick their asses right back into the stone age if necessary.

Peace through superior firepower.

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Scott Weiser

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