[lbo-talk] Obama: killing for 2012

[Andy]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:
> Doug:
>
>> Note that U.S. oil companies did rather poorly in the recent round of
>> auctions in Iraq. Companies from China, Malaysia, France, and Russia  did at
>> least as well or better.
>
> Is this a profitable pattern for Russia? If, as CDoss says, the Russians are
> happy to support the US in Afghanistan, then perhaps they're looking at the
> same scenario: the US does the killing and dying in an energy-rich area of
> the world, then Russia (and others) comes in to bid without having to deploy
> a single battalion. Seems like a smart move to me.

Or quietly supporting insurgents, hoping to draw the US into
exhausting itself.  Wouldn't that be funny?

-- 
Andy