I am deeply suspicious of economically determinist or conspiratorial explanations for political and historical events. The world is just too complicated, and chance and history play too large a role in the choices we face and the decisions we make. The mantra on the left that President George W. Bush’s rush to war with Iraq is about oil, oil, oil, sounds simplistic to me. Sti (...)
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A War for Oil
Bush, the Saudis, & Iraq
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