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The oil was already flowing in 2003. 1991 was fought over the oil, 2003 was fought over ideology and wishful thinking.
by azernik 7y ago
The oil was already flowing in 2003.
1991 was fought over the oil, 2003 was fought over ideology and wishful thinking.
- discordance 7y agoBy ideology do you mean daddy issues?
- mc32 7y agoI think he’s referring to some who to this day believe in “nation building” and imposing democracy where it’s not ready to take root. Ostensibly this democracy would spread and we’d have fewer adversaries as more regimes aligned with internationalism and globalism.
- azernik 7y agoYup - specifically, the neoconservative philosophy that said that now that the USSR was gone, the US had the power and hence the responsibility to reshape world political power structures in whatever way it thought was right.