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Posted by Maggie (Guest) - Thursday, September 21 2006, 23:33:10 (CEST)
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The reason for attacking Iraq was because Iraq is home to the second largest identified oil reserves in the world, and because Saddam was taking steps to move closer to economic alliances with Russia, China, Japan and France. All of these except for Russia are nations which need to have an external supplier of oil to mobilize their military and economic forces. By attacking Iraq, the US hoped to plant a new friendlier government there which would be subservient to the US, and if necessary, side with the US against any potential threats that might be posed by any of these nations in the future. And especially as the world's oil supplies dwindle, the US would have Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Kuwait as virtual client states, insuring that the US would be one of the last countries to run out of this resource.

Would you call that imperialism, or maybe just neo-colonialism?

By the way, the term “client state” is common usage:

A client state is a state subservient to another state. This can occur in many varying ways, most commonly by treaty, military occupation, and/or economic dependence. Client states have existed for millennia as stronger powers made subservient those around them as they grew. In ancient times states such as Persia and Greek Polis' would create client states by making the personal leaders of that state subservient. One of the most prolific users of client states was Republican Rome which, instead of conquering and then absorbing into an empire, instead chose to make client states out of those it defeated, a policy which was continued up until the 1st century BC when imperial power took over. The use of client states continued through the Middle Ages as the feudal system began to take hold, and in a way the entire society was based upon various divisions of a realm being clients to middle level nobility, who in turn were client to the powerful nobility, who were in turn client to the monarch, who, in the case of Catholic states, was often a client of the Pope.

In modern times, client states have developed based upon imperial possessions of the great European powers of the 19th century. These client states were especially obvious during the Cold War as almost the entire world was divided based upon being a client state of either the Soviet Union or the United States.

Why would anyone want to live like this, in this day and age, when there's plenty to go around for EVERYONE? It's not like we are living in the paleolithic age, where we were hunting and gathering food, and hadn't thought of storage, surplus, or genetic engineering?

Can we allow our greed to take over every aspect of our life to the point we are so oblivious to what we are doing to the world?

How much is enough?

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