A former Asst. Secretary of Ronald Reagan Craig Roberts (definitely
not a leftwinger commie-sympathizer anti-imperialist) writes in Steve Sailer's website about American policy things that I long suspected but never saw published:
The American oil giant, UNOCAL, had plans for an oil and gas pipeline through Afghanistan, but the Taliban were not sufficiently cooperative. The US invasion of Afghanistan was used to install Hamid Karzai, who had been on UNOCAL’s payroll, as puppet prime minister. US neoconservative Zalmay Khalilzad, who also had been on UNOCAL’s payroll, was installed as US ambassador to Afghanistan. Two years later Khalilzad was appointed US ambassador to Iraq. American oil companies have been given control over the exploitation of Iraq’s oil resources.
It is the same thing America have been doing all the time in Latin America. Oil has long dominated American government. The Texas oil industry has been complaining that the world oil industry is being dominated by State owned companies and no areas are open to private (American) exploration. A Texas oil government, headed by Bush and Cheney, are only doing their job making available oil rich regions, such as Iraq, to Texas oil companies.
In testimony before Congress on February 1 of this year, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski said that he expected the regime to orchestrate a "head-on conflict with Iran and with much of the world of Islam at large." He said a plausible scenario was "a terrorist act blamed on Iran, culminating in a ‘defensive’ US military action against Iran." He said that the neoconservative propaganda machine was already articulating a "mythical historical narrative" for widening their war against Islam.
Who is pumping Iran's oil? Since Carter sacked the Shah, surely they not the Americans. Well, I hear them saying in Dallas "Its high time to correct that mistake."
1 comment:
There is much to be said in what you have posted. The problem is, as yet there is no Afghan pipeline and gushers of liquefied extinct reptile are not yet flowing out of Iraq (though there is some production).
So, is this just a feeling on the part of the oil interests that just one more push (into Iran) and everything falls into place?
I live in one of the most corrupt political environments in the US. So if you tell me that due to the political "correlation of forces" government is going to do something stupid, I am never shocked. I am not shocked that we might Tonkin Gulf Iran.
Still, this level of refusing to learn is on a much higher plane than before.
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