[lbo-talk] Descended into chaos...

[JBrown72073 at cs.com]

Doug Henwood wrote: 
> Of course not. But you can't pump oil when things are blowing up all
> over the place.
> 
Carrol:
>[snip] Also -- I have always seen u.s. mideast policy as aimed centrally at
>_control_ rather than at exploitation of the oil there. Of course 'they'
>want the oil very badly, but u.s. hegemony can be nicely maintained with
>the control offered by permanent large military bases there, and
>pacification of only some of the oil areas. Yhe Kurds would probably
>police their own area, for example.

Yes, control not increased flow.  And if the goal--or one goal--was to peg 
oil prices at a new high (to tax China, to help out oil co. buddies) then the 
chaos policy has been fabulously successful.

Jenny Brown