LIBYA, OIL, DEATH

Today, two photojournalists were killed in Libya, and the U.S. stock market was up 186 points.

Are these two events connected?

You tell me. Libya, I understand, is our biggest source of "light sweet crude," which is the cheapest to refine and the easiest to turn into gasoline.

Maybe we are just there to rescue people. Maybe.

And the U.S. economy runs on what? Oil? 

Hmm. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Oilman George W. Bush invaded Iraq, and oilman Dick Cheney said oil from there would pay for the invasion and reconstruction.

Did it? You tell me.

Hmmm.

-- Roger

© Copyright 2011, Roger R. Angle

The Surge in Iraq

I'm tired of hearing that the troop surge in Iraq has worked.
What has worked is the new tactic of buying our way in, of basically paying people not to bomb us.
We have established new alliances, between ourselves and between various Iraq factions, and that has worked.
We have taken a new attitude in Iraq.
We have recognized that it is their country, not ours, and we can't tell them what to do.
We have started listening to them and working with them rather than dictating to them.
And we have started buying some loyalty.
Now if we could stop killing innocent civilians, both in Iraq and in Afghanistan, we'd be making real progress.
I think we should be building schools and hospitals all across South Asia and the Middle East instead of wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on the war.