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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ilaine who wrote (48580)10/1/2002 4:38:30 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
However, as Nadine has pointed out so many times that I think she's too tired to bother anymore, our strongest ally in the Middle East is Israel, which has no oil.

Both can easily be true. We support Israel for reasons that have nothing to do with oil; our interests in Iraq are basically about oil. Thus, one of the great quandries of American foreign policy in the ME.

If "it's all about oil" doesn't Saddam have enough oil already? Why did he invade Iran, which has no oil? (Edit: dumb statement, of course Iran has oil. I should let Nadine make this argument, she does it better.) Why does he threaten Israel, which has no oil?

My only serious source for information on these issues at the moment is Pollock's book. But he argues that the Iranian province Saddam attacked is at the heart of the Iranian oil reserves.
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