Oil

[Doug Millison]

Pynchon's geo-politics of oil (cf. GR), in the 21st century...

"Over the last two years alone, the USA and Britain have dropped over 
400 tons of bombs and missiles on Iraq. Blair has been raining down 
deadly explosives at a rate twenty times greater than Major. No other 
country in Europe supports this
fire-storm. The bombardment of Iraq has now lasted longer than the US
invasion of Vietnam. [...] Thus Blair's Personal Assistant for Foreign Affairs,
ex-diplomat Robert Cooper writes on P.42 of 'The Post-Modern State and the
World Order' that: 'We need to get used to the idea of double standards.' He
also informs us casually that 'the reasons for fighting the Gulf War were
not that Iraq had violated the norms of international behaviour', but the
need for the West to keep a tight grip on 'vital oil supplies.'

from "New Labour, New Bombs" by Tariq Ali
ZNet Commentary, February 19, 2001
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