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Foreign Policy
I came across another video of a talk I gave at the Naval Postgraduate School. This is one I gave in 2015. It ends at about the 42:00 point.
I’ve got another project today and so I don’t have time to time stamp it. You will see, though, that toward the end of my 42 minute presentation, I talk about “peak oil,” thus overlapping what I talked about in my talk that I highlighted yesterday.
I covered some of the same ground in an early 1991 speech when people in the Bush administration really were talking about going to war for oil.
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Thaomas
Feb 23 2020 at 9:54pm
There were really people in the GWB administration that were talking about oil as a reason to invade Iraq in 2001? I thought that was just a silly canard. That made no economic sense so I dismissed it. Who could think that Bush/Rumsfeld/Chaney were going to invade for oil. Absurd! And now you say it was true?
David Henderson
Feb 23 2020 at 10:07pm
I highly recommend watching the video.
Warren Platts
Feb 24 2020 at 1:22pm
The original name for the Iraq invasion was “Operation Iraqi Liberation.” For some reason it was subsequently renamed “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” 😉
Alan Goldhammer
Feb 25 2020 at 8:29am
“Somewhat on topic,” I read today that the company that was funding expansion of Alberta oil production is backing out saying there are too many uncertainties based on environmental and cost considerations. Projections are also mentioned that indicate the Keystone Pipeline will be little used in terms of bringing higher cost Canadian crude to the US given oil booms in other international areas and natural gas production in the US.
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