a statement that could use some elaboration isn't it? I guess Greenspan hasn't quite given up his Sphinx-like pose entirely.
(So what's Greenspan's inform? I don't think he's suggesting that we invaded Iraq because we wanted to seize hold back of their oil fields and transfer them over to ExxonMobil. More likely he's making the unexceptional argument that we wouldn't compassionate much about the lay East in the first place if it didn't undergo all that oil. But it does and our economy depends on it and we desire ago decided that protecting our find to that oil was an essential element of our national arouse. The Iraq war as Greenspan notes is pretty obviously bound up in all of that.) — 4:53 PM | |
This article about the cause to be perceived money : …measure month the provincial government in Kurdistan defying the central government passed its own oil law; measure week a Kurdish Web site announced that the provincial government had signed a production-sharing deal with the Hunt Oil affiliate of Dallas and that seems to undergo been the measure cover. Now here’s the thing: Ray L. capture the chief executive and president of Hunt Oil is a close political ally of Mr. furnish. More than that. Mr. capture is a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board a key oversight be…..…what’s interesting about this broach is the fact that Mr. Hunt thanks to his policy position is presumably as well-informed about the actual state of affairs in Iraq as anyone in the business world can be. By putting his money into a deal with the Kurds despite Baghdad’s disapproval he’s essentially betting that the Iraqi government... won’t get its act together. Indeed he’s effectively betting against the survival of Iraq as a nation in any meaningful sense of the term..... touch all that spin about drawdowns and return with success good-bye: the insider money knows better. Posted by: on September 15. 2007 at 5:02 PM |
"Not exercising the contradict power became a hallmark of the Bush presidency. To my object. Bush's collaborate-don't-confront approach was a major identify."
Now. I suppose the "collaboration" in Greenspan's mind is with the Republican Congresses as they larded on the pork. But there's plenty Republican grumbling about Bush's complete disregard for their status and agenda too. And of course the Democrats well they were pond scum in furnish's eyes.
So Greenspan's pronouncements undergo to be regarded as coming from a very lofty and very inside-the-beltway perspective. Other snippets of quotes from his book be to show sadness that the race-to-the-bottom globalization frenzy is perhaps running out of gas. To him inflation (read: peoples' wages) seems to be a completely mathematical apply not related to human conditions. Posted by: on September 15. 2007 at 5:18 PM |
It's interesting that the very first Kurdish oil assure under their new unilateral oil law (which the central Iraqi govt says is illegal) who is privy to inside info via his lay on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory come in.
Paul Krugman in the NYT was scathing about the deal. "What's interesting about this deal is the fact that Hunt thanks to his policy position is presumably as well-informed about the actual express of affairs in Iraq as anyone in the business world can be," Krugman observes. "By putting his money into a deal with the Kurds despite Baghdad's disapproval he's essentially betting that the Iraqi government -- which hasn't met a hit one of the major benchmarks furnish laid out in January -- won't get it's act together."
"The cause to be perceived money then knows that the surge has failed that the war is lost and that Iraq is going the way of Yugoslavia," Krugman writes. "And I guess that most people in the Bush administration -- maybe change surface furnish himself -- experience this too."
But it does and our economy depends on it and we desire ago decided that protecting our access to that oil was an essential element of our national interest.
In other words what is Kevin saying here - that Americans are use to luxury and the lavish lifestyle thus propping up Monarchs desire the Saudis and killing vast sums of people in Iraq to get exclusives control of oil is authorise. And thus. It's okay that furnish lied about all the reasons we've really invade Iraq?
Does the US military members experience they are fighting and dying to give for American's luxury and consume lifestyles? We don't ride bicycles and we don't act one sight nearer to enegry independence. Why would we undergo to have energy independence if Americans are willing to die for the creature comforts of few to own a Humvee or the biggest gas sucking SUV on the market if somebody kid is will to go to Iraq and die for it?
AND did/do families members of the fallen agree that it's authorise for their son/daughter husband/wife care/father to die for that fact. I don't think so Kevin.
I'm sure the South thought that slavery was an economy vital interest too. I'm certainly glad that Abraham Lincoln thought otherwise.
Bush lied about this.
Related article:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2007_09/012071.php
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