Essential Oils
They aren’t all that essential. Would the Iraq War have been fought over vials of lavender and tea tree?
I have mixed feelings about fighting wars over oil. I think it is justified, but not for the reasons we did it in Iraq. It’s wrong not to share resources as vital as oil. Yes, the UK traded slaves and robbed countries of their diamonds and all kinds of shit. No amount of living in the past will atone us of those sins. Nor does it absolve other countries of their evils.
Imagine if the UK had three quarters of the world’s food, and this was the only place that food grew. Then picture us selling that food for six, seven times what it was worth to other countries whose governments tax the hell out of it. I can seriously people invading us to ensure fairer distribution and I probably wouldn’t protest too much because of our greed.
Oil is just the same. It is vital to our economy, nearly on the scale of food. We’re not talking diamonds any more.
Many anti-capitalists protest about the war. Hang on. Aren’t they defending a country stance of hoarding all the oil and price fixing? Wow, how right wing are these anti-capitalists? What about the distribution of the wealth? What about property being theft?
But the war against Iraq was a war on its people who have nothing to do with it. We now keep them down and fan the flames of civil war while the Saudis fix the price of oil from right under the nosecones of our Tornados and that’s fucked.