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Entry: Was It The Oil, All Along? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/was_it_the_oil_all_along#10103 Post contents: You might want to consider a much simpler explanation: the neocons actually believed what they loudly and repeatedly said (read Commentary): US troops will do a cakewalk through Iraq and bring about a regime-change there, while Iraqis cheer and throw flowers on their tanks. With Iraq taken care of, the troops will continue to Syria and change the regime there. Next US army "takes a right" and repeats the regime change manoveur in Iran. The army then moves south, takes control of the Saudi oil-fields in passing and brings about a regime change in Egypt ("Mubarak is no great shakes.") Whatever resistance to US hegemony remains can be mopped-up later. The above plan may actually have been for real, because, when people become blinded by pride/hubris, they lose touch of reality and start living in a world of delusions. Most importantly, they lose empathy, i.e., the ability to understand how others perceive their actions and will react to them. Proud people also lose the ability to do self-criticism, and this loss produces megalomanical projects which are bound to fail, but the impossibility of which the proud cannot see. Troublingly, the same people that developed these "brilliant" plans are now advising the leading presidential candidates of both parties. Sent at: 2008 10 11