[flintsilver7]

It’s almost like you’re beginning to get it.

I long ago realized that the economic security of this country is heavily dependent on oil. It is actually necessary for this country to protect its economic interests on foreign soil. Of course, there is the curious fact that our economic interests seem to need a lot more protecting in Muslim states. Canada, Brazil, and Norway produce more oil than Iraq, yet we don’t have to depose their leaders. Why? Because they have relatively stable governments and essentially free people. Somehow, it seems strangely like the Muslim countries in the Middle East are the ones who are most prone to explode.

[George W. Bush]

It is actually necessary for this country to protect its economic interests on foreign soil.

It is a persistent U.S. foreign policy issue: how to extract our vital national resources which are so unfairly located beneath the soil of belligerent foreign countries. Their behavior about this is so vexing.

[John Farson]

It is actually necessary for this country to protect its economic interests on foreign soil.

And yet you just claimed Paul was a kook for acknowledging the economic incentives to war.