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doctorbob on July 1, 2006 - 4:16pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
The Chinese don't seem to mind cuddling up to some rather unpleasant regimes when they think it will serve their own interests.  Splendidly Conservative!  Still, I suppose it's better than simply deposing them and putting 100,000+ troops into a country.
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alan on July 1, 2006 - 4:24pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I bet the Energy Return On Cash Invested (EROCI) of paying off repressive regimes is much higher than the EROCI of deposing those regimes.
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MikeCapone on July 1, 2006 - 5:31pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Well, the US only overthrows regimes when they stop cooperating and accepting the money/responding to the threats.

Nothing new.

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ignorad on July 1, 2006 - 8:38pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
As th US is cuddled up to a rather unpleasent apartheid regime that is committing acts of terrorism as we speak. Using bombs to destroy power generation and infrastructure on down trodden civilians. Pure terrorism. Its happening in Gaza.
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jkissing on July 5, 2006 - 10:45am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Yeah, but perfectly alturistic. Our support for the terrorists is not on account of oil - indeed, it is making our long term access to middle east supplies less likely by the day. Imagine if democracy spreads to SA!
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Don Sailorman on July 5, 2006 - 3:22pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
That would give not only the SA royal family but all the other corrupt and despotic Arab-Oil leaders the Hershey squirts.
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