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[Spider Jerusalem]

and I'm not so hopeful, myself, unfortunately. We don't have the lead-time we need...if people had listened to Jimmy Carter a quarter of a century ago, we mightn't be faced with the problems we're going to be experiencing soon,

But then, we ALSO have Carter to thank for the "Carter Doctrine", which in extreme form is the casus belli for our recent imperial adventures. The Carter Doctrine states that access to Middle Eastern petroleum represents a key strategic interest of the United States, and that military force will be used if necessary to ensure uninterrupted flow. To some extent, the Bush administration's geostrategic planning seems to have as a focus securing a future resource base through military means.