Good News All Around
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in Foreign Affairs | Iraq | Oil Exploration — Comments (3) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Western oil companies are going back to Iraq. This will enable (1) the creation of Iraqi jobs, (2) increased oil supplies that will help bring down the price of oil over time, (3) increased oil revenues for Iraq and (4) greater confidence and increased attention on the fact that the domestic situation in Iraq has improved considerably.
I am sure that someone will find a reason to be upset about all of this--likely arguing anew that any strategic or economic value that comes from this indisputably positive development will somehow sully us all and ensure that we do not have clean hands. While this is a Pavlovian response to stories such as these, there is no reason to take such killjoy behavior seriously. I, for one, am glad that people who scream "ick!" every time a strategic or economic benefit rears its head are not in charge of setting policy at an executive level.
At least not yet, anyway.
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Would it be out of place for me to make a "We fan FINALLY steal the oil!" joke?
heh.
I thnk it is great that Iraq is progressing as well as it is that oil companies can move in to start to get the Iraqi people good solid oil income.
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Dependence is Slavery.
You know, even with spellcheck, typos exist.
can, not fan.
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Dependence is Slavery.
1. As John Kerry noted, this fiasco war cost so much money that we were spending billions on firehouses in Baghdad which we can't afford in America. Obama points out this war is bankrupting us.
2. Simultaneously, as the left has shrieked for 6 years now, the Iraq war was all about oil, and making the US an imperial power by stealing the oil of Iraq and making an obscene profit for Bushchimpcheney and "big oil".
"Small town folks get bitter after which they cling to guns or religion, or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment"- Barack Carter Obama