[Peace-discuss] Sociologist and urban planner James Howard Kunstler on Mideast oil

[Morton K. Brussel]

On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:06 PM, n.dahlheim at mchsi.com wrote:

> The US still has strategic interests in this part of the world.

So what? So have many other nations.  That should not allow them to  
take over.

> It would not be a good thing for
> Iran to gain control over the southern Iraqi oil fields.

It would also not be a good thing for the U.S. to gain control over  
the Iraqi or Iranian oil fields. Nor is it a given that Iran would in  
fact gain such control. In any case it is for the Iraqis to decide,  
not an imperious and greedy USA.

> It would not be a good thing for Shia
> fundamentalism to be tempted to destablize the rest of the Arab world.

The spectre of Shia fundamentalism, way overplayed in my view,  would  
be far less if it were not threat under extreme attack by the U.S.  
Finally,  under peaceful conditions, the U.S. would have no problem  
in getting its oil; the oil nations want to sell what they have.   
Consider whether we should attack Venezuela, or Russia, because we  
want their oil? It is anarchical madness to argue this way.

We should more worry about our own fundamentalisms

--mkb


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