Reply #4: There is another element to all this.... [View All]

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and it has been bugging me for quite a while. It has to do with our old conflict against the Soviets, and the anti-Communist efforts of which, at one time, we were allied with Osama bin Ladin.

The President of Iran has been meeting with Hugo Chavez, leftist president of Venezuela, and Iran is often accused of being allied with communist North Korea, in the "axis of evil." Around 9-11-01 I had been involved with a forum very similar to DU, but with a much more capitalistic bias. I recall one poster, who was very much up to speed on current world events, pointing out that the greatest threat in the Middle East was that of creeping socialism. I wonder if the greatest threat to Bushco would be if the Royals were to lose control, major oil fields became nationalized (as threatened to happen in Iran in the 1940s) and major oil monopolies and other global corporate entities lost control and became marginalized? Would the War on Terror be as defensible if this were really the case?