The consensus of opinion among many writers that I think are sound is that the upcoming war (praise God, may it NOT happen) is about oil. It's not so much that we want to steal the oil, but that we (that is, the USA) want to control its flow. And we certainly want to maintain the dollar market for oil and not let world oil vanish into the embrace of the euro. Oil is the gold of the day, black gold, with one vast difference from real gold: unlike gold, oil is consumed. Most of the gold that was ever … Continue reading The Screaming-Meemies Background of Oil Strategy