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koob on September 17, 2007 - 7:53pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Doesn't the Iraqi case indicate that this strategy will likely be unsuccessful as the cost of rebuilding and maintaining control over the infrastructure is too high? In the case of Iraq they may be consuming less, but their production and exports are way down too. If the undeveloped world has indicated anything it seems to be that infrastructure cannot be maintained in areas where residents have nothing to loose by destroying said infrastructure and have everything to gain by stealing either production or the infrastructure itself.

Curious as to groups thoughts here?

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newellm on September 18, 2007 - 6:54pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

With the amount and quality of the oil in iraq, i think even starting over from scratch with infrastructure would be more profitable than many of the projects that are active these days.

And I think the people who are behind this crap don't care if the oil is accessable now, they just don't want a strong society in iraq that can control and god forbid use the oil themselves.

After another decade of war in the area, with a few hundred more tons of DU spread about, they might not have much of a problem with insurgents bombing oil infrastructure.

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