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...effort to stabilize Iraq on the basis of political and security agreements with its neighbors. The chances of avoiding a civil war, and achieving some form of stability, will be greatly enhanced if a new political arrangement in Baghdad carries the backing of Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iran. The U.S. sought, and achieved an equivalent agreement in Afghanistan, whose neighbors include Iran. And while it continues to berate Tehran as a member of President Bush's "Axis of Evil" and tighten sanctions on Syria as a "state sponsor of terrorism," there's a certain inevitability to the search...
From a geological perspective, former Commonwealth of Independent States members like Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan look like great places to buy up oil. There’s plenty of it, infrastructure is reasonable and Islamic separatist movements are not as formidably organized as they are in Saudi Arabia or Iraq. Then again, these places are political and environmental disaster zones in their own rights, replete with legacy pollution from the Soviet era and rapacious governments that are only too keen to make you pay for their mistakes. One typical experience this summer had me constructing a financial model to price...
...consumption 17% (and net oil imports 50%) while the economy grew 27%. The key to that revolution was a huge increase in average miles-per-gallon of the U.S. automobile fleet. If we had continued to increase energy efficiency at the same rate, the stability of Iraq and Saudi Arabia would by now be of minor concern to U.S. policymakers. Instead, we bought SUVs and wasted two decades...
...Setting the Record Straight Shadowy Suspect "The Plot Thickens" [Aug. 23], about suspected terrorist Adnan el-Shukrijumah, said he was born in Guyana. He was born in Saudi Arabia, according to the Ambassador of Guyana...
...have almost 60% of the populations of Egypt and Saudi Arabia under 30, and 50% under 18. We have to engage in a way that offers them some alternative to the radical madrasahs that are educating them to hate and to go out and strap explosives around themselves. They [the Bush Administration] haven't even engaged in a legitimate effort to try to really transform the ability of Israel to find a legitimate entity to negotiate with. The only thing they do is rattle the saber...