Interesting Comments!

Submitted by GK (United States), Feb 8, 2006 at 17:26

ST -- Good comments, and they are being said by many observers of the mess.

Tom Friedman had an excelent op-ed in the NY Times today. His conclusion -- isolate the extremists by stopping America's dependence on oil from these "closed societies".

The interesting extension of the thought is, what if the WTO and "open societies" of the world stopped buying oil from countries that were "closed" or that created a hostile environment for people who practiced faiths that were generally accepted in the "free world"?

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