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The answer is Iraq: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/03/17/how_iraqi_oil_is_changing_the_world http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/03/17/how_ir

• gruseom 17y ago
  That's a very interesting article from the heart of the American foreign policy establishment. Back in 2002-03 during the runup to the Iraq war, I had long conversations with an office mate trying to figure out what was really going on (the asinine fiction of WMDs being obvious propaganda, ineptly executed at that). One theory that we came up with was that the US were doing it to gain leverage over the Saudis. It's interesting to see that articulated so plainly in the pages of Foreign Policy magazine: the emergence of Baghdad as a rival to Riyadh Couldn't have put it better myself! (I'm not saying that's why, of course. I don't know why. But "it has nothing to do with oil" always struck me as a tad naive, and by "a tad" I mean "maximally".)
  • david927 17y ago
    "The Iraq war is largely about oil." ... "I'm saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows," -- Alan Greenspan