Submitted by Steve W, May 29, 2007 00:24

Hi. Russia is running all the oil and natural gas from Central Asia through Russia to Europe. If The U.S. does not come to an agreement with Iran to run an energy alternative to Europe, and they wind-up running their oil and natural gas to Pak. India., and China, does the US lose it's influence in Europe to Russia? even if we invade Iran and take control of the oil and natural gas, if we can't protect the thousands of miles of pipelines - do we still lose our influence to Russian energy leverage?

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