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julie myerson, computer bks desktop publishing, 3 fatmen, mapping, baby phat, health & fitness / weight loss, uranium, mystery & detective women sleuths, arts and entertainment, gee, palomares, laura dern, amazon.com, site y, ubo.net, | "Everyone else gets in line weird pictures behind us. If there's any left, we'll make sure you get some." Now, weird pictures I'm weird pictures fairly certain that a fair number of Americans will high five and go, "Yeah dude, kick ass! That's our oil! We need it!" But this muscular mercantilism is hardly the "rule of law" we say we believe in and that we claim we're fighting for. Unless, of course, the "rule of law" is whatever rules and laws give us whatever we want at the time. Which is what I think it means sometimes. I could point out that crude oil formations underneath the Saudi desert, or Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, or wherever, aren't our property even if they aren't private property per se and therefore we are no more entitled to that crude than a ravenous fat man is entitled to a free meal everywhere he goes. |
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It's unlikely that any of these companies asked for this invasion because they all prize stability – the stability of contractual arrangements, of a regular return arts and entertainment on capital, of not getting their employees killed and their equipment blown up – above nearly anything else. Even arts and entertainment the stability guaranteed by very nasty governments. Dealing with the "devil," whatever headgear it wears, is pretty common in the oil business. But there is an oil component to the invasion and occupation, and I believe it is arts and entertainment this: the United States, through invading and occupying a nation with significant oil reserves, would show the world – especially the up-and-coming consuming nations of China and India – that in the event that push comes to shove, and this resource gets scarce, Americans come first. |
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