4. Obviously Middle Eastern oil is important, but USA interest isn't so much controlling oil as maintaining hegemony region & access to oil.
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15. Norman Podhoretz described 1st Iraq war as coitus interruptus: it was unfinished business (sorry for glimpse of Podhoretz's idea of sex)
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16. Sense of "coitus interruptus" became more intense when Bush Sr. lost in 1992. Meant unfinished business had to be deferred ever longer
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@HeerJeet They're all psychopaths.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Was it just to prove we COULD invade Iraq? This could play into a bunch of the popular causesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet this always credible to me, ties to chomsky's idea of kosovo being about nato's credibility than liberal interventionismThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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