NephthysWanderer the Charming wrote:
*yawn*
Anyone who thought that oil wasn't part of the bigger picture is a moron. Of course there are oil interests.
It's an entirely different thing to say that it was THE reason.
Big difference.
QFT.
To delve into the other
reasons however is a major headache.
The slow shift away from the Pacific Rim countries that trade wise and militarily strategic wise had been an integral part of American policy decisions for close to 130 years...to areas that are incredibly more complex to navigate.
The EU principles, and their desire to get a larger chunk of the extremely profitable Defense Contracts/Arms Industry, which I think the USA enjoys about a 50% cut of globaly, and that it's not <snicker> all about shifting the USA away from being
the economic force on the planet.
And how those same EU principles are trying to get the arms embargo lifted off of China (which were put in place for humanitarion issues), and that it's not <snicker> all about shifting the USA away from being
the economic force on the planet.
And how those same EU prinicples decided to blade the USA and not follow the 1441 resolution, and that it's not <snicker> all about shifting the USA away from being
the economic force on the planet.
And probably a couple of hundred other reasons that make it much easier to just chant "It's all about the oil" than delve into and face the new emerging realities of the forcibly manipulated shift of global trade/economic dynamics.
To get too deep into it, just earns you a tin foil hat award that will carry with it the endless reading of posts about how the USA is central to most human rights atrocities,(
as if it wasn't/hadn't been the USA it would be better)<snicker>...while those same North American posters reap the benefits from it being the driving economic force on the planet.
Yep, George Bush is the Debil and it's all about the oil.