Re: Oil crunch question

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Seth Sandronsky wrote:

> One question.  With the world oil supply crunch causing price hikes, why?s
> there no move to increase Iraq?s oil production?  Iraq has the world?s
> second-largest estimated crude oil reserves.  The Economist says, "What the
> overheated market needs is lots of new oil, now."

I tend to dismiss offhand any claim that the U.S. government ever acts out of
concern for people or principle. There is a need to explain the continuing
policy
towards Iraq, and I think that my initial response to the Gulf War may still
hold some weight in explaining its continuance. My initial feeling that the
"enemy"
under attack in the Gulf War was at home -- it was the so-called
Vietnam-Syndrome.
The goal is to maintain the right and the political capacity of the U.S. to use
military power where, when, and for whatever reason it chooses. Iraqi children
die to illustrate and give force to that right and that capacity.

Carrol