US draws up list of unstable countries

[whirlygigspin]

"US intelligence services are drawing up a secret watch-list of 25 countries in which instability might lead to US intervention, according to officials in charge of a new office set up to co-ordinate planning for nation-building and conflict prevention."

..."Mr Pascual told a conference last week on reconstructing and stabilising war-torn states that the NIC would identify countries of “greatest instability and risk” to clarify priorities and allocate resources. The watch-list was classified, according to a spokesperson. However, another official gave the example of Nepal, saying it was the subject of a study on fragile states by USAid, the government aid agency. USAid declined to comment."

By Guy Dinmore in Washington
Published: March 28 2005 21:56 | Last updated: March 28 2005 21:56
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/da4ba358-9fc7-11d9-b355-00000e2511c8.html

http://www.usaid.gov/policy/2005_fragile_states_strategy.pdf

[Kerrytravelers]

1. The way * is dividing this nation, we should definetly be on the list!

[elehhhhna]

4. Yes. It takes one to know one!

[XemaSab]

2. We can fight a war on 25 fronts.

Sure we can.

Yeah.

[whistle]

Oh wow, 25 future wars we can all look forward to....

...let's watch those Halliburton and military blue-chip stocks rise to new heights:woohoo:

[Joey Liberal]

3. Add the United States of Halliburton to the top of the list

[elehhhhna]

5. Ha! 25! That's more than our coalition of the willing!

[meganmonkey]

6. WE'RE # 1 !!! WE'RE # 1 !!!

And that's why it is secret and classified :P

[AirAmFan]

7. IMO most of the 25 are on this list, sorted by billions of barrels

of oil reserves. From http://www.fpif.org/papers/oil.html :

Saudi Aramco 261.8
INOC (Iraq) 112.5
KPC (Kuwait) 96.5

NIOC (Iran) 89.7
PDV (Venezuela) 77.7
ADNOC (United Arab Emirates) 53.8

Pemex (Mexico) 28.3
NOC (Libya) 23.6
Lukoil (Russia) 14.3

NNPC (Nigeria) 13.5
ExxonMobil (U.S.) 12.2
PetroChina 11.0

Royal Dutch/Shell (UK/Netherlands) 9.8
British Petroleum 7.6
TotalFinaElf (France) 7.0

ChevronTexaco (U.S.) 8.5
Petrobras (Brazil) 8.4
Sinopec (China) 3.0

Nippon Mitsubishi (Japan) 0.05

WORLD 1,046.2

[FloridaPat]

8. Didn't Bush have a list of 64 he wanted to invade when he gave the

speech at West Point I think it was several years ago.

So, any guesses where we're going to get the military personnel for this policy? How long will most Americans put up with this crap?