Cost of U.S. Intervention in the Mideast
Your article (front page, Aug. 29), which reports that our Persian Gulf expense has doubled to $2.5 billion, says that our lawmakers ask who will pay the bill.
It seems to me that the answer is staring us in the face. The Saudi Arabians are gaining a windfall of about $40 billion this year from the oil prices that have been increased because of their need to have us rescue them. Why should Saudi Arabia be allowed to keep that windfall?
It would make sense to force the royal family that rules Saudi Arabia to disgorge their ill-gotten petrodollar profits to the American people in gratitude for the sacrifice of our military men, as well as to pay our military reservists the money they are losing from their civilian jobs, instead of buying more F-15s and other military hardware.
LEON PERSLWEIG
Los Angeles
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