There's a note of desperation to all of this that gives me pause. I don't have the proof, but the behavior we're seeing and the soaring prices suggests that we're running out of oil much faster than anyone realizes.
That's what is TERRIFYING me. Because I'm getting the feeling that the Bush administration got all the above info, knew that this Iraq thing was a bad deal, and then decided that circumstances were dire enough to necessitate it anyway. That destroying our military, ruining any rapport we had with surrounding nations, selling our souls to China, wasn't an act of negligence or incompetence, but of desperate necessity.
If I don't take this stance, then I can't understand Iraq. I can't understand the oil industry. Hell, I WANT to call incompetence and let it rest. But while I might concede that Bush is an idiot, I'm afraid that if I call his entire administration incompetent, then I'm burying my head in the sand, I'm refusing to see the larger picture.
Because if these last four years AREN'T just gross misconduct, then something is happening that demands these ridiculous sacrifices. That demands the possession of that oil above all other concerns. Which freaks me the fuck out, because it makes me aware that I don't fully understand the ramifications that oil has on modern society, our standards of living, and the balance of power, and what might happen when we run out of it within my lifetime.
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Date: 2007-10-07 03:57 am (UTC)That's what is TERRIFYING me. Because I'm getting the feeling that the Bush administration got all the above info, knew that this Iraq thing was a bad deal, and then decided that circumstances were dire enough to necessitate it anyway. That destroying our military, ruining any rapport we had with surrounding nations, selling our souls to China, wasn't an act of negligence or incompetence, but of desperate necessity.
If I don't take this stance, then I can't understand Iraq. I can't understand the oil industry. Hell, I WANT to call incompetence and let it rest. But while I might concede that Bush is an idiot, I'm afraid that if I call his entire administration incompetent, then I'm burying my head in the sand, I'm refusing to see the larger picture.
Because if these last four years AREN'T just gross misconduct, then something is happening that demands these ridiculous sacrifices. That demands the possession of that oil above all other concerns. Which freaks me the fuck out, because it makes me aware that I don't fully understand the ramifications that oil has on modern society, our standards of living, and the balance of power, and what might happen when we run out of it within my lifetime.