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Col. Dan Smith is a military affairs analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus, a retired U.S. Army colonel, and a senior fellow on military affairs at the Friends Committee on National Legislation.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 22, 2006 Politics of the Pump-- Oil, Atoms and War
The outcome of the November midterm elections in the United States may well hinge on oil and atoms. The issue of atoms, namely Iran's nuclear ambitions, is potentially more explosive. But the price of gas, since it hits consumers in the pocketbooks, may have the more immediate effect.