[Chad C. Mulligan]

And isn’t stealing natural resources from lesser nations part of your Neocon foreign policy?

No it's not. We pay market rates. Moscow of course does not, so you were half right.

One might be forgiven for wishing the West had stolen the Arabs' and Iran's oil, given their behaviour over the last 80 years. But we didn't, because we don't.

[JonPreston]

And isn’t stealing natural resources from lesser nations part of your Neocon foreign policy?

No it's not. We pay market rates

We pay at the point of a bayoneted. It's the American way!