On Dec 24, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Teemu Pyyluoma wrote:
Given that you have the ship the oil somehow, I wonder how useful controlling Middle-East would've been without controlling the Med?
Remember the old aspiration--oil via land?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Railway
David Ritchie Portland, Oregon
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