“WHAT IS TO PREVENT US from seizing the oil fields? The U.S. Army can solemnly announce that it will not take a dime from their exploitation beyond operating costs, and surely there are economists who can figure out how to set up a distribution system that will not wreck the world’s oil markets, with all the ramifications that would bring about. I am in particular thinking of what a provisional neo-colonial administration of the Gulf’s oil resources might do to Africa’s booming oil industries. For what it is worth, the European dependence of Russian oil will be lessened by our seizure of the Middle East’s reserves.”

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13161

This must be a joke, right? No serious publication (you know, with a glossy cover and a subscriber base) would print something so ludicrous, especially in light of what has happened in Iraq and Afghanistan. Is this the belated April Fool’s edition? Can someone be so powermad, so clueless about economics, AND have a job that pays him to type words. And to think, I actually had a subscription myself as a teenager. Thank God for The American Conservative!

Peace be with you.

ps. Of course, they hate us for our freedoms, don’cha know?!