re: #294 researchok

Because it’s wrapped in real intel at times.

Oil isn’t the only thing the Saudis have us hooked on.

I’m pretty sure we can do without the “real intel wrapped in phony intel” part.

The Saudis cannot afford another oil boycott, else they would have repeated the experiment by now.

OPEC is hardly monolithic anymore. No power to boycott. So my question remains: what could the Saudis possibly do to us, in case of a suspension of aid to the Palestinians, that they haven’t already done? Send us more bogus students? Bush was the guy who agreed to up the ante on that one. Increase the anti-Israel rhetoric? How could that be accomplished?