The main point you have been making here -- that we are close to the precipice with regard to energy issues and resources -- I agree with completely. Unless there is a major breakthrough in energy technology soon, over the cliff we go. Invading or not invading the Mideast will have little affect on the coming nightmare. Even the successful theft of Mideast oil by brute force would only buy a little time. I also agree with you that some non-neocons in the American establishment may have been motivated by this argument in supporting the Iraq War -- throw the dice, what the hell -- we're in deep shit anyway.
Now I'm off to the beach, where I will successfully pretend that none of this is real. :) Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- In political-research@yahoogroups.com, Sean McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is absolutely nothing the Bush 43 can do now to fix the > damage to American energy interests that was "achieved" by the > Iraq War -- damned if we leave, but even more damned if we stay. > If we had simply bought the oil from Saddam on the open market, we > would have been much better off. The money that was poured down > the drain in the Iraq War should have gone into alternative energy > research. Of course you'll get no argument from me about the desirability of spending all that dough on alternative energy research! I would only point out however that it is too late for that, and our "leaders" know it. This is the endgame. Right now. Alternative energy research needed to be done in the 70s and 80s. As for the being better off simply having bought the oil from Saddam: perhaps so, perhaps not. It depends on whether or not he would have continued insisting on payment in euros rather than dollars; background here: http://www.energybulletin.net/7707.html Petrodollar Warfare: Dollars, Euros and the Upcoming Iranian Oil Bourse, by William Clark As for the damage done: 20-20 hindsight. As I've said, these guys are desperate, and they are taking big chances because of big risks. Things can go well, or badly. Things have been going badly. Alan
