You see, there's this part of the USA economy, the military-industrial complex (Eisenhower, 1961), which about every decade has to rotate its inventory by spending surplus equipment and ammunition the usual way (wars), in order to renew it with more modern weapons and better technology. The extra benefit: it mitigates the cyclic economic crisis and keeps the economy in good shape. It has worked like a sharm for the last century or so. Just don't look at pile of bodies that leaves behind from time to time.
The Middle East will be reunited once the colonial powers (UK, USA) suck dry all the oil under their territories. Only then they will be allowed to go back to camel-tourism the desert! Enough diatribe about religion and power-hungry ayatollahs! Every single war is about power and grabing other people's property. Seems that the Colonial Era of humankind is not over yet.
This is about OIL and power, not religion. It's amazing how this main component of the equation is being left out by most posters. Both the UK and USA long to convert Iraq into de Mexico of the Middle East: an oil-rich territory with a complacent government, dominated by a corrupt oligarqy, populated by complacent people more preocupied in the latest Hollywood releases. Throwing religion into the equation only help to mud the waters more.
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You see, there's this part of the USA economy, the military-industrial complex (Eisenhower, 1961), which about every decade has to rotate its inventory by spending surplus equipment and ammunition the usual way (wars), in order to renew it with more modern weapons and better technology. The extra benefit: it mitigates the cyclic economic crisis and keeps the economy in good shape. It has worked like a sharm for the last century or so. Just don't look at pile of bodies that leaves behind from time to time.
The Middle East will be reunited once the colonial powers (UK, USA) suck dry all the oil under their territories. Only then they will be allowed to go back to camel-tourism the desert! Enough diatribe about religion and power-hungry ayatollahs! Every single war is about power and grabing other people's property. Seems that the Colonial Era of humankind is not over yet.
This is about OIL and power, not religion. It's amazing how this main component of the equation is being left out by most posters. Both the UK and USA long to convert Iraq into de Mexico of the Middle East: an oil-rich territory with a complacent government, dominated by a corrupt oligarqy, populated by complacent people more preocupied in the latest Hollywood releases. Throwing religion into the equation only help to mud the waters more.