If the US power elite were smart and above self-interest -- which, of course, they're not -- they would impose an "Alaskan solution": each Iraqi adult would receive a yearly share of the oil revenues. That would deal will all these intra-Iraqi fights over oil.
On 8/27/05, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you look at the map below, it will be obvious that most of Iraq's oil is > in the Kurdish controlled north and the Shiite controlled south: > > http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/iraq_oilfields_1992.jpg > > In the May New York Review of Books, Peter W. Galbraith argues for what > amounts to the breakup of Iraq: -- Jim Devine "An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention." -- Anonymous
