Monday, April 18, 2005

logorama Still working off those bad Mcdonalds karma points. 11:03:28 PM    comment []

Strawman Putting out the word. First of all, the "war for oil" argument has never been, "The U.S. only wants lots of oil." That's strawman-making with a vengeance. The charge -- fully substantiated by the Bush gang's own copious writings about their geopolitical ambitions ("Project for the New American Century," et al) -- is that a group of elite interests in the U.S. want to control access to world energy resources in order to maintain and expand their own power and privilege (which they equate with "American interests"), and to put the squeeze on any potential rivals for geopolitical predominance in the coming decades, such as China and India. Totally worth reading. Things are just starting to get interesting, and at the crux of it all you'll find the black gold. 10:48:09 PM    comment []