I know it's not all about oil, but oil is a big part of it, and it's nice and concrete and something people can relate to. It's also already associated with big money and shady colonial wars.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
And the oil lobby is pernicious enough to be a worthwhile target, even though they aren't the whole (or even the biggest) story.
Besides, the oil lobby is entrenched enough and powerful enough that the process of taking them out will of necessity involve tearing down much of the same infrastructure the MIC and FIRE sectors use to buy politicians.
But, hey, I don't have a solution, a really good alternative name for 'inverted totalitarianism' either. fairleft
That was a cop-out argument. The simplicist level of the 'war for oil' argument is indeed faulty to consider short-term corporate interests, but serious arguments focused on imperial interests pursued by neocon strategists: control over reserves in a post-Peak-Oil environment. Which was more or less explicit in the pre-war arguments by Cheney or Baker. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
