--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> >Oil has been at the center of geopolitics for over
> a century, but I
> >still agree with you that saying it's "about oil"
> is in specific
> >instances not very illuminating.
>
> It's become the default left explanation for
> everything the U.S.
> does. Somalia was about oil. Afg was about a
> pipeilne. Liberia is
> about oil - in Nigeria. Etc.
>
> Doug
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