What individual capitalists want and what the US power elite think would be good for capitalism as a system are not the same thing. It doesn't make sense for the US Government to try to conquer and occupy real "profit centers" -- Japan, Europe, China, Brazil, etc. -- as markets in such areas are complex, with no obvious single source of wealth. Economies of many states in the world -- especially in the Middle East -- are, however, crucially dependent on extraction of natural resources, especially oil, which may prove to be irresistibly tempting targets for the US power elite who seem undaunted by the prospects of either old-fashioned colonial conquest and occupation or blatantly neo-colonial control (= regime changes to create handpicked new native rulers) which they don't mind publicizing to the whole world ahead of time. If they can do it to Iraq, surely they can do it to others, if the world allows the USG to get away with this war of naked aggression. The world has no shortage of real dictators and terrorists, so they won't be stumped for pretexts. -- Yoshie
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