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Entry: Was It The Oil, All Along? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/was_it_the_oil_all_along#10270 Post contents: Unless the argument is that there really is a huge Jewish conspiracy to control the world for the Jews and the Jews alone, you can't explain the behavior of non-Jews as being totally supportive of Israel. It just doesn't wash. It's about oil AND about Israel - because Israel cares about dominating the ME for two reasons: 1) because they want the money and power the oil would give them; and 2) the Zionists think they're better than the Arabs (and everybody else, too, of course.) So the Zionists pressure the neocons who in turn are in bed with the war profiteers like Cheney and the oil companies. There's no contradiction here, and no reason to be trying to start a controversy over what the reasons for the war are. The reasons for the war are the same as the reasons for every statist war: money and power. It's that simple. And the people running Israel are the same kind of people as those running the US - people who want money and power. Anybody who thinks it's all about Israel has to explain Dick Cheney, who is not a Zionist and not a neocon. He's a war profiteer, plain and simple. Most of the people behind the military-industrial complex are not Zionists and not neocons. They're war profiteers. The oil companies are war profiteers in the sense that they make money when the price of oil goes up. They're easy to understand. The neocons are mostly ideologically driven fanatics. Many of them are Jewish and ardent supporters of Israel. But not all of them. So it's a mistake to assume that the neocons are just part of some Jewish conspiracy. You have to look at the ME situation as a "perfect storm" of confluence of the interests of war profiteers, oil companies, Zionists and neocons, and just plain corrupt politicians of every stripe. Trying to decide who had the most influence is about as important as how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Sent at: 2008 09 08