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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (147909)10/14/2004 5:05:51 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Keith is wrong to see it quite that way, but he is right that excessive manipulation of the oil markets, with the clear understanding of its effect on external economies and with their defense capabilities, could, under some circumstances, be deemed an act of war, and that we have an overall strategic interest in the stability of the oil supply. It is silly to deride concern with such stability when people will die from economic crises and might die from military vulnerability. It is like intentionally causing a black out: one is responsible for all of the patients that died because their respirators failed, or people who died because they suddenly were blinded by the dark in traffic.

In any event, the fact is that, to me, our invasion will always be justified on humanitarian grounds, so I cannot be dissuaded from seeing it as a good thing.

For the rest, I guess we shall have to await the verdict of history.
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