B
or at least we thought they were. I'm not for sure that they were. They seem to have gotten us into some of these messes.
A
Huh-uh. Well, do you think the U S should even be involved? I mean, as the world leader in the sense trying to resolve these issues or should we have just stayed out of it?
B
Well, I wish we could stay out of it, but the oil is not going to allow us to. We absolutely need that oil. That's the major thing. If we didn't need the oil and if we didn't have the ties with the Israelis, we could probably stay out of it.
A
Right. Right. Right.
B
But I'm not for sure that we're not destined, at least for the foreseeable future, as long as we can keep our head, our own head above water, to be the world leader. So I, Bush is probably, if he can keep that correlation together, especially the French, and the British, and the Germans, and be sure that the Japanese can kick in some of their money. They may just have to, I don't know what type of pressure they can put on all the nations there, too, because now that the war is over, societies have just about gone back to their own,
A
Huh-uh.