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U.S. should help protect energy assets in the Eastern Med
2014-12-27
Marios Efthymiopoulos explains to us why Israel and Cyprus can't possibly defend their new oil and NG fields in the Eastern Med themselves, even with all that new wealth, and need Uncle Sugar (NATO, but we all know who that is these days) to do it for them. It's for the children.

Gaaaah...
Posted by:Steve White

#8  "Blood for oil." But your premise is pretty much accurate.
Posted by: Pappy   2014-12-27 14:24  

#7  There goes the left. It amazes me how they screamed like we were raping babies when we went to Iraq. All the war for oil crap. Not they are rationalizing it away as the right thing to do. Gotta love the irony.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2014-12-27 13:02  

#6  Easy solution. Move the drilling and processing assets from Nigeria and Congo to east Med. The people who work on them will consider it an improvement, and they're used to dealing with iffy situations.
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-12-27 11:34  

#5  If they can't defend them they're not really theirs.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2014-12-27 10:27  

#4  Nah... The plan will be to pay off the terrorist states with two or the times the cost.

Only to have those states use the money to finance terrorist 'militant groups'. (which the media will call freedom fighters)
Posted by: CrazyFool   2014-12-27 09:11  

#3  Alternate link.

Link fixed. Thanks, Besoeker!

-- TW at 10 a.m. ET
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-12-27 09:07  

#2  Or, use a fraction of the that it'll cost to subsidize domestic production.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-12-27 09:03  

#1  Time for Rent-A-Nimitz.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-12-27 06:30  

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