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04/27/2005: Thought for the Day:
Regardless of what Bush really thinks about the Saudi royal family and its undemocratic ways, he--like any other modern American president--has a strong interest in assuring access to oil, preferably at lower prices. Similarly, a president might like China's rulers to treat dissidents more humanely, but he really wants China to keep buying dollars and floating the U.S. deficit. (Bush's commitment to freedom might be taken more seriously if he took action to promote oil conservation, and cut the deficit, in order to make us less beholden to the Saudis and Chinese.)
--Fred Kaplan
Len on 04.27.05 @ 07:51 AM CST
