It would, of course, be nice to have Germany and France and Russia and China with us. But these nations have their own interests, and we certainly shouldn't give them a veto over U.S. policy. It's telling that anti-warniks who are so ready to infer dark U.S. motives in our clash with Saddam -- oil! -- don't mention the real interests that might explain the German and French stands. Oil and other lucrative contracts -- yes, weapons deals -- as well as their large Islamic populations.This pieceis from David Reinhard, in The Oregonian. Link via Knowledge Problem.
Thursday, February 13, 2003
So which countries' positions on the war are "all about oil"?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Blog Archive
-
▼
2003
(163)
-
▼
February
(26)
- At the IETF, I officially work on authoring and in...
- Brian pointed out this gem of a quote from Ashcrof...
- Today's NYTimes editorial by Kenneth M. Pollack sc...
- One last post for today's prolific blogging: my po...
- One big X-factor in the different outlook towards ...
- Microsoft is shipping a new IM product called Thre...
- The Straight Dope message board has a thread on "...
- Dan Simon posts a very complex blog entry today on...
- Drezner's blog entry on French and German attempts...
- Drezner summarizes the arguments that the Intergov...
- Actually, I'm finding Knowledge Problem has a weal...
- This table from the Concise Encyclopedia of Econom...
- So which countries' positions on the war are "all ...
- Steve Mallet posted an interesting piece on the li...
- BBC World News last night mentioned briefly that U...
- Today's Friedman NYTimes editorial claims that if ...
- Fox News published an article by Wendy McElroy (li...
- I'm not the only one who thinks Germany and France...
- Spain's leaders may be on the side of the US in go...
- There's no way Germany should have been surprised ...
- From a guy looking for work in IT:The quick assess...
- I was talking with my Mom about US vs China. In Ch...
- This wide-ranging interview with Christopher Hitch...
- Do unto others? Last night, as I went to bed, aft...
- Yesterday I accidentally stumbled into an anti-war...
- Holy Cow! A British socialist, wrote a Guardian ar...
-
▼
February
(26)
No comments:
Post a Comment