On 7/14/06, Leigh Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
David B. Shemano wrote: > What evidence do you have that the policies of George Bush are in any way motivated by the domestic economic policies of the Iranian government? > The overarching desire of the neoconservatives, therefore the Bush administration, is "energy security" and "oil price stability" (In the long run).
If what they want is "energy security," the last thing they should have done is to make war on Iraq, let Israel go out of control (like now), and angle for sanctions and then war on Iran. What they should have done is to invest in Iraq and Iran, even though the terms may not exactly be to their liking. As for "oil price stability," those who benefit the most from it are oil producer nations -- provided that oil prices get stabilized on a relatively high side -- and industrializing nations like China and India. That's why Venezuela proposed that OPEC and consumers jointly attempt to stabilize the price at $50 per barrel: http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2006/04/03/afx2644022.html. (Why $50 per barrel? That's the threshold of profitability for Orinoco tar.) -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
