I was trying to put together some thoughts on the election when the news came in from London. Three nobodies run amok in the heart of the city, people mown down in the streets, women stabbed to death. They murdered the innocent and said they were doing it for God. The script's become familiar but the horror never gets any less. Fifteen years ago I was covering this sort of madness in the Middle East; now it's come to Europe and no one seems to know what to do about it. Enough is enough, … [Read more...]
It’s Still About The Oil
June 20, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The Iraq war was always about oil. The ISIS extremists who are trying to seize control of the country’s largest refinery know that. Everyone was braced for the battle for Baghdad. But first they went after the oil. Just like the Americans. In 2003, when Baghdad was a chaos of looting, the one thing the Americans secured was the Oil Ministry. Because oil is power. If all you’ve got is a cave on a mountain side somewhere in Afghanistan, you have to do something really big to … [Read more...]
