>But the broader goal of US strategic control over the world supply
>of oil seems to be achieved at this point.
We've been here before, but just what does that get the U.S.? Are the Bushies operating on some antique model of empire, in which control over land and resources confers some economic advantage? Just what would that advantage be? They're not going to cut off Japan or France, are they? If they wanted to, they could just blockade them anyway.
Doug