Among the limited number of legitimate functions of government, including national defense and the support of a court system, is the obligation to protect the people who have conferred temporary power on them from cartels and combinations whose purpose is to rob those who have conferred that power.
That includes, obviously, combinations with the purpose of fixing commodity prices. The agricultural sector has gotten not only a pass on this critical obligation of republican government, but support in furthering those combinations.
The "No war for oil" propaganda spewing from the anti-American left also ignores this critical function of government, on the subject of re-colonizing those third world accidental nations who combine to rob our people on a key commodity, oil.
Iraq was not fought for the oil, and Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela and many others remain able to meet and fix the prices of this commodity. But if that HAD been the reason, it would be just as legitimate as the dominant reason, destroying Saddam and his terrorist partners.
They can find their justification, if and when it amuses them to do so, in the decades-long official sanction of our government for the robbing of our citizens by the agricultural sector... |
