Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Wed, 04/05/2006 - 20:36.
...but I certainly never argued that "the Lobby" is "irrelevant." But the fact that the Tel Aviv stock market has been on the upswing since the Iraq invasion says nothing about Israel's degree of culpability in bringing it about. The same is true of the oil and defense industries' profits. I have never argued that the Iraq adventure is about oil company profits, or the "pork barrel" thesis that it's all been a big excuse for defense contracts—even if the unimginative have interpreted my arguments that way, much to my frustration. Sure, the war shot up oil prices, which has been good for Exxon—but the cartel has not been able to effectively exploit Iraq's reserves (as the opponents of the "war-for-oil" thesis always point out with glee). I have always argued that the corporate windfall is an auxiliary motive at best, like the supposed need to protect Israel. Fundamentally, this adventure has been a strategic gambit for control of oil as a means to assure continued US global dominance. As I have pointed out, the Pentagon/PNAC policy documents have always been quite clear on this. It is only the left, perhaps paradoxically self-conscious about association with too Marxian an analysis, which fails to "get it."
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...but I certainly never argued that "the Lobby" is "irrelevant." But the fact that the Tel Aviv stock market has been on the upswing since the Iraq invasion says nothing about Israel's degree of culpability in bringing it about. The same is true of the oil and defense industries' profits. I have never argued that the Iraq adventure is about oil company profits, or the "pork barrel" thesis that it's all been a big excuse for defense contracts—even if the unimginative have interpreted my arguments that way, much to my frustration. Sure, the war shot up oil prices, which has been good for Exxon—but the cartel has not been able to effectively exploit Iraq's reserves (as the opponents of the "war-for-oil" thesis always point out with glee). I have always argued that the corporate windfall is an auxiliary motive at best, like the supposed need to protect Israel. Fundamentally, this adventure has been a strategic gambit for control of oil as a means to assure continued US global dominance. As I have pointed out, the Pentagon/PNAC policy documents have always been quite clear on this. It is only the left, perhaps paradoxically self-conscious about association with too Marxian an analysis, which fails to "get it."