What if the Iraq war is about oil?
In his memoirs, Alan Greenspan writes, “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.” This will cheer the Bush haters, yes? server files MU 97d 99
But even if Greenspan is right, Jules Crittenden asks the obvious question: So what?server files MU 97d 99
Peaceniks and warmongers alike can’t live without [oil]. There is this false notion that if the United States went to wind power, solar power, etc., and eliminated its dependence on foreign oil, we wouldn’t have to worry about the Middle East anymore. Our troubles there would evaporate. This view ignores the fact that [oil] would remain incredibly valuable, a source of financing for jihad and terrorism, and that it would be sold to and very possibly controlled by other parties we are already at odds with, may soon be more seriously at odds with, parties that will be empowered by our withdrawal from a position of world leadership. China and Russia. Maintaining the free flow of oil from the Persian Gulf has been the policy of the United States and has occupied the United States Navy for decades. A dirty secret the anti-war faction doesn’t like to acknowledge. Why did some leading nations resist the war to liberate Iraq? Oil.