Sean wrote: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mark Urban and his fellow cia-druggies have still been unable to explain how American oil companies are going to profitably extract oil from a region of the world in which the natives, thanks to Israel and the neoconservatives, view them as their most dangerous and hated enemies. Russia, China, India and Europe are ready to pounce on the enormous opportunity that that the neocons have provided them. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ok, Mr. Sean. let me try to break this down for you: If Iraq is a giant shit storm like Lebanon, then little or nothing is going to happen. The killing and infighting will just wear away the infrastructure. Iraq will be left with a puppet government and those many firebases and that huge embassy (almost the size of the vatican) in Baghdad. As long as nobody can do much with Iraq's oil because of the war and turmoil, then the oil will not get to market and there will be less supply. By every kind of primitive economics I know that means the supply line shifts in such a way as to intersect the price line at a higher intersecting point. Therefore, prices are higher and will stay higher. What other benefits are there? Well with all that military hardware in the region, do you think the oil producing neighbors are going to piss on uncle sam's leg? Do you think they'll do nasty little things like stop using petrodollars?Do you think they'll want some of what Iraq got? Remember the Plot from GOLDFINGER? The plan was not to steal the gold in Fort Knox, just make it radioactive and unavailable. Then Aurich Goldfinger's supply of gold would become much more valuable. You see, my dear lil' buddy Sean, sometimes your itty bitty brain just has to work a little bit harder to understand the big picture.
