Daniel Pearlman wrote:
>
> Our "meddling" in the middle east has enabled the flow of cheap oil that
> has enabled the flow of sometimes cheap emails that dribble through our
> oil-enabled computers.  This lovely paradox is similar to the one which
> recognizes that most of the technological advances that have improved our
> quality of life--in health, communication, etc.--are the outgrowth of war.
> ==DP
>

U.S. oil comes from Venezuela, Mexico, & Nigeria, not the mideast.
European oil comes from the Mideast. Japanese oil comes from the
mideast. Some place in the Cantos there is a line or two about someone
scrabbling through the soil of Persia looking for oil. (Iraqi & Arabian
oil came much later.) Pound was touching there on one of the major
sources of World War I.

The outcome of the Iraqi War will be U.S. control of the lifeblood of
the EU and Japan. We could be seeing the opening stages of a replay of
sorts of World War I. The U.S. & England against Europe -- with the
other players (India, China, Japan, Russia) to line up on either side
depending on future events.

This is the _only_ "rational" reason for this war. The official claims
are pure nonsense, and no war being needed for _access_ to oil, but only
for _control_ of oil which the U.S. does not itself need.

Carrol