So much more to the story, but already over limit- lengthwise. Maybe commenters can fill in more.
1 posted on
03/10/2012 1:29:35 PM PST by
pickrell
To: pickrell
THE history of the oil industry.
2 posted on
03/10/2012 1:40:16 PM PST by
Jacquerie
(No court will save us from ourselves.)
To: pickrell
Churchill’s fault. Who knew?
To: pickrell
4 posted on
03/10/2012 1:54:54 PM PST by
Doogle
(((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: pickrell
The law of unintended consequences. History is replete with other examples. The British seizure of the two Turkish battleships in 1914 helped cause the Ottomans to join the Central Powers and the decision to break up the Empire after the war quite possibly led to the Middle-east becoming the great mess it is today. The decision to open Japan by intimidation in 1853 led to that nation modernizing into a great industrial power and becoming our mortal enemy in WW2.
To: pickrell
To: pickrell
I have never seen such a balanced, and believable account.
Who are you?
7 posted on
03/10/2012 3:27:32 PM PST by
kenavi
(1% of the 1% were born in the 1%.)
To: pickrell
outstanding essay...
8 posted on
03/10/2012 4:02:04 PM PST by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: pickrell
Yeah, I'd like to hear more on your integration of the meeting of 2 drunks and a tyrant at Teheran, with this facet of Near East structural plans to divvy up the "free" world.
I can think back to my days in Syracuse, in '55-'57 when the discussion of this was hot at the frat, though the war by then was ice-cold and the elitists of the brothers seemed to be preparimg their resumees to apply for CIA openings. Before Sputnik.
9 posted on
03/10/2012 6:07:39 PM PST by
imardmd1
(...when college was not for the the faint-hearted -- and scholarships were won, not entitlements)
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