High priced oil, weak dollar, mortgage market reacting worse than the facts warrant. This man asks, is something else going on here?

As someone who has served at the U.S. Central Command, Special Operations Command and in other similar activities, I see economic warfare as a viable and successful activity for an enemy force, as well as for own government.

To believe that all the terrorists want to blow themselves up is terribly naive. Any group that could mastermind the 9/11 massacre cannot be taken for granted. Assuming that the terrorist networks would be content with being attacked while not counterattacking in some fashion defies logic and common sense.

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