Some people dispute the claim that the US attack on Iraq is motivated — at least in part — by the desire for Iraq’s oil. What can we say about them? They may be hopelessly naïve about the public sector in general. Some of the same people who are pleased to finger greed and avarice as the root cause of all accounting problems on Wall Street are loath to consider that similar impulses might inspire politicians and bureaucrats as well. It could also be that those who deny an oil connection aren’t reading the newspapers. After all, it was the … Continue reading DC Leninists