On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 23:00:23 +0000, Simon Elliott wrote:
> devil writes
>>Military action for physical control of oil is just not the American way
>>of doing things. A large fraction of European opinion sees this as a (the
>>only sensible, seemingly?) rationale for a war, given that it otherwise
>>makes no sense at all. But I don't buy it.
>
> What do you make of this?
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3333995.stm
>
> The United States considered using force to seize oilfields in the
> Middle East during an oil embargo by Arab states in 1973, according to
> British government documents just made public.
Right. If you don't let them buy, of course one has to look at plan B...
Seriously though, this was a much more critical situation, and they didn't
do it.
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