On 12/01/07, A. G-C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do you explain the proliferation of US military bases in the > > Middle East[1] if those bases aren't intended to protect American > > access to oil?[2] > [...] > to keep a military strategic position of US Defence at the south > of Russia and China [...] > Because civil nuclear becoming now a predictable market of America [...] > Imagine what Iran yet now represents in this geo challenge
Those seem to me like plausible factors as well, but they can coexist with the importance of protecting access to oil. I think we mustn't forget that the CIA helped overthrow Iranian prime minister Mossadegh in 1953 because the British, hurt by the nationalisation of Iran's oil industry, persuaded the US that Mossadegh was turning towards communism. Thus oil and the Cold War, for example, were closely linked. Ben # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
