I spent 5 eld in Saudi Arabia relating 96 and 2001 as a noncombatant in work as an IT chief for a leading oil company. I cognize puny give or take a few the oil industry. But in work beside an multi-ethnic crowd, I intellectual slightly a few material possession out within.
The war in Iraq is an unmistakably heatedly controversial theme. But I am going to inform you several belongings you may not know going on for to amend you a bit. I muse a miniscule fluency is the key to fashioning groovy decisions.
1. War is big business
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The US affairs of state went into Vietnam because they textile that they widely read an cardinal lesson: War is big company. A lot of companies ready-made a lot of income during Vietnam. And they are taking ascendancy of this in Iraq (ex Halliburton). It is sure that our US tax dollars pay for the war. But the benefits to the US may far outclass the hard cash that will be tired on this war. It exceeds more than just effort the oil liquid. But that is just as long-dated as the US wins the war.
2. The loser has to pay reparations
While in Saudi Arabia during the incident betwixt Gulf War I and II, my colleague got a job on the East Coast of Saudi Arabia to spick up the beaches in the Persian Gulf. Who was paid for this? Iraq was. They were paid for this because of a lesser known fact that the small fry of a war has to pay for reparations. If we "win" Iraq, we get to livelihood corner the market and we get rites posterior for reparations. If we lose, we pay.
3. Iraq is the 2d biggest oil shaper in the world
Saudi Arabia is the large oil producing land in the worldwide. They solely only just put up the shutters downward the deeply prototypal oil pumping station that was ready-made (about 80 years of oil came out of that one parcel). The United States is only in bed near Saudi Arabia. We don't ownership them, but we have had a excessive association beside them since the years of FDR. And I look forward to we will go on to do so. But you ne'er cognise what possibly will arise...
Iraq is the cipher 2 oil author in the international. So why not get in bed next to them as well? Makes awareness to me not to put all of your food product in one basket. Even better, let's gain cartel of their oil, and plop fluff quite a few bases to assure that the oil keeps graceful. If we ownership the oil, we charge the net income as all right.
4. Privatization of oil
The United States wants to denationalise the oil in Iraq. What this vehicle is that the United States will direct the oil and endow with the administrative division a crumb of the takings. They have to do this in decree to help pay for the immeasurable charge of this war. This used to be the shield many a geezerhood ago in Saudi Arabia low Aramco. The Saudi's had to do this, because they did not cognise how to win oil productivity or purification. Once the Saudis figured out how to survive their own oil flow, they took command and now sale the oil to the US.
The Iraqi's previously have this noesis. The US requests to lift the income from them.
5. They poorness to living an eye (and arm) on the nap of the Middle East.
A notion specified to me by a taxicab manipulator one day was amazingly riveting. He said that the United States uses Israel and their bases to keep an eye on the Middle East. If this is the case, it would craft cognizance to put bases in Iraq (which they have), and hang on to an arm in the center of the total Middle East; straight involving Iran and Syria.
The US expects that Iran may beginning creating thermonuclear warheads in the close few old age. So it is substantial to keep hold of the bases warm so they can preserve Iran lower than ownership. They cartel the Persian Gulf and they want to be competent to wing them by manor from Iraq's lateral if demand be. The US is besides in coalition next to Afghanistan now who borders Iran on their Eastern on the side.
Syria has been defendant of causing military hardware to Hezbollah who fights the Israelis beside them. Israel and allied Jordan are on Syria's South, and related Turkey in the North. With Iraq now mortal on their Eastern border, their solitary nation is the war frayed Lebanon. They won't have a accidental.
The Iraq war at this factor is at the prickle wherever they have need of to transport much troops in, or pulling out. If they displace more personnel in, the US may inevitability to stir up the drawing over again. They want to send away in 20,000 troops, but at hand are only 9,000 free. Where will they come through from? More society (on both sides) will likewise definitely die.
If the US pulls out, they put in the wrong place the war and those business benefits will be gone. They won't have specified a defence on the Middle East. If Iran should go nuclear, their will not be by a long way we can do. If Syria gives nukes to the Hezbollah, Israel will be dead.
It is a touch telephone call. Is it really approaching to the questioning of "Are we truly honorable exchanging body fluid for oil?" Or is it more than that?
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