On 3/28/2011 2:05 PM, ken hanly wrote: > > Gadaffi did not give the west everything it wanted as far as oil is > concerned. > The state retains a 70 per cent interest in projects. A new government could > privatize that interest and it would be a huge boon for foreign oil. I do not > know how having a ceasefire and negotiating a solution would have more > casualties than allowing battles for cities. Even if Gadaffi is actually > defeated in a short time there could be a situation as happened in Iraq after > the defeat of Hussein. Loyalists kept on the struggle to the present with > continuing casualties. >
I plan to write at some length about this but I got misled into thinking an intervention was not going to happen because Libya had an open door policy to foreign oil companies. I think that this is more economic determinism than Marxism but need some time to think this through carefully. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
