Well, boys, what exactlky the hell IS the situation? This man has a nation with oil under it, and a big customer is mighty sore at him. If he had half the brains god gave Enron, he'd back his sheets and take a tack to restore decent relations and market the damn stuff to us. And the many other idiots who, like us, are addicted to it. Why should he do that? Because it would bring jobs, currency, international esteem, circulation and dialoue to his nation and restore it to some of the primacy among nations that it once deserved.

If he is too Neanderthal to see this as a possible path, we have to ask why and what the pressure points are that are driving him on some other course of action. Personal psychosis is one answer but perhaps a facile one.

What motivates this guy? Does he live with his Mom?

Anyone know for real??

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