[lbo-talk] Re: Bush invaded Iraq because...

[Shane Taylor]

Michael Pollak wrote:
> The hybrid economic strategic idea, that leverage
> over the supply of oil can be used to bend countries
> to your political will, rests on a misunderstanding of
> the 1973 oil crisis.  It's hard to remember now what
> a huge political trauma that was.  It was also a
> formative one.  The misunderstandings made then
> have been fixed unrevised in our policy making
> imaginaire ever since.

A very important, possibly underestimated, point.  It was the time where
most of these neocons got there teeth cut.

-- Shane

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