[lbo-talk] Multipolar Geopolitics and the Middle East

[shag carpet bomb]

Jordan writes:
>> (and besides, the awl bidnez is now a global market that
>> no one can really control). The invasion of Iraq didn't
>> do much to assure the free flow of oil - if anything, it
>> destabilized it.
>
> I'm not convinced, notwithstanding public claims to the contrary
> 'natch,
> that the policy goal of the US is to ensure "free flow of oil" ...
> disrupting the possibility for any one actor to control it seems like
> a
> much more logical -- and thus "effective" ...? -- goal to have.  Kind
> of
> like: if I can't control it, no one can.
>
> You have to admit that for being halfway around the world, the US's
> influence has been bigger probably than if the Middle East was in
> Kansas.
>

yeah. that. and, frankly, WRT neo-cons, I've always thought that the
whole point was to gain a foothold in the region with military bases
precisely so as to be able to tell Israel to fuck off.

shag

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