Chomsky Says President Obama Continues Bush Policy To Control Middle East Oil
November 3, 2009 posted by Sherwood Ross · 2 Comments
By Sherwood Ross /Staff Writer
Political activist Noam Chomsky says that although President Obama views the Iraq invasion merely as “a mistake” or “strategic blunder,” it is, in fact, a “major crime” designed to enable America to control the Middle East oil reserves.
“It’s (“strategic blunder”) probably what the German general staff was telling Hitler after Stalingrad,” Chomsky quipped, referring to the big Nazi defeat by the Soviet army in 1943.
“There is basically no significant change in the fundamental traditional conception that if we can control Middle East energy resources, then we can control the world,” he said.
In a lecture at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London Oct. 27th, Chomsky warned against expecting significant foreign policy changes from Obama, according to a report by Mamoon Alabbasi published on MWC News.net. Alabbasi is an editor at Middle East Online.
“As Obama came into office, (former Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice predicted he would follow the policies of Bush’s second term, and that is pretty much what happened, apart from a different rhetorical style,” Chomsky said.
Chomsky said the U.S. operates under the “Mafia principle,” explaining “the Godfather does not tolerate ‘successful defiance’” and must be stamped out “so that others understand that disobedience is not an option.”
Despite pressure on the U.S. to withdraw from Iraq, Alabbasi reported, Chomsky said the U.S. continues to seek a long-term presence in the country and the huge U.S. embassy in Baghdad is to be expanded under Obama.
“As late as November, 2007, the U.S. was still insisting that the ‘Status of Forces Agreement’ allow for an indefinite U.S. military presence and privileged access to Iraq’s resources by U.S. investors,” Chomsky added. “Well, they didn’t get that on paper at least. They had to back down,” Alabbasi quotes him as saying.
Chomsky said Middle East oil reserves are understood to be “a stupendous source of strategic power” and “one of the greatest material prizes in world history.”
Concerning Iran, Chomsky said the U.S. acted to overthrow its parliamentary democracy in 1953 “to retain control of Iranian resources” and when the Iranians reasserted themselves in 1979, the U.S. acted “to support Saddam Hussein’s merciless invasion” of that country.
“The torture of Iran continued without a break and still does, with sanctions and other means,” Chomsky said. According to Alabbasi, Chomsky “mocked the idea” presented by mainstream media that a nuclear-armed Iran might attack nuclear-armed Israel. Iranian leaders would have to have a “fanatic death wish” to attack Israel, which reportedly has 200 nuclear weapons or more.
“The chance of Iran launching a missile attack, nuclear or not, is about at the level of an asteroid hitting the earth,” Chomsky said. He said the presence of U.S. anti-missile weapons in Israel are really meant for preparing a possible attack on Iran, not for self-defense, as they are often presented.
Chomsky is professor emeritus of linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(Sherwood Ross is a Miami-based media consultant who formerly reported for the Chicago Daily News and worked as a columnist for wire services. Reach him at sherwoodross10@gmail.com)
Prof. Noam Chomsky has been outspoken about geopolitics issues for decades. Time and world events have proven him mostly right in his adopted positions.
Though, the idea of controlling the Middle East oil is not the final objective. It is meant, in the long run, to prevent China from getting access to it.
Actually the USA and Europe can do without oil from both Iraq and Iran. The technology is at hand even to substitute other sources of energy to the fossil ones.
The concern in the USA is about what a future highly industrialized China might do to the World Monetary-financial System and the Rules of the WTO and GATT, established to suite the interests of the banksters owning the Federal Reserve and the Wall Street Capital and Securities busnesses-‘financial products’.
That is why the US Foreign Policy is controlled by the AIPAC Lobby or JEWISH LOBBY (I do not like the term “Jewish Lobby”, given that there are many Jews, Authentic Jews, who are against the “Zion-Talmudists” (= Zionists who want to apply the Talmudic Laws to the non-Jews, i.e. Elected People vs. Goyim), who represent Big Finance and the Armament Industry Contractors). See Professors Mearheimer & Waltz paper about “The Influence of The Jewish Lobby in American Foreign Policy”, for more details. Said Control is aimed at establishing the same MONETARY & FINANCIAL SYSTEM, that impoverished this country (USA), –and recently brought havoc in Europe and Scandinavia–, in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and especially China and India, to rip these country off, now that the job has been successfully done in the USA and GB…
The war is about GLOBALIZATION before China gets strong enough to have its say in global affairs. There were no terrorists whatsoever in Iraq until the country was invaded by the USA-GB against the recommendations of the UN and the protests of France and Germany. The Taliban Government said “hand over to us the proof that Osama Bin Laden was involved in the 9/11 disaster and we will turn him over to you”… Facts that stand undisputed to this day.
http://www.rense.com/general86/world.htm
The oil they don’t tell you about.
The U.S. Geological Service issued a report in April (’08) that only scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big. It was a revised report (hadn’t been updated since ’95) on how much oil was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota; western South Dakota; and extreme eastern Montana ….. check THIS out:
The Bake is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska ‘s Purdah Bay, and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels.. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable… at $107 a barrel, we’re looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion.
The U.S. Geological Service issued a report in April (’08) that only scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big. It was a revised report (hadn’t been updated since ’95) on how much oil was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota; western South Dakota; and extreme eastern Montana ….. check THIS out:
The Bake is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska ‘s Purdah Bay, and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels.. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable… at $107 a barrel, we’re looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion.
‘When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see their jaws hit the floor. They had no idea..’ says Terry Johnson, the Montana Legislature’s financial analyst.
‘This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found in the past 56 years.’ reports, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette. It’s a formation known as the Williston Basin, but is more commonly referred to as the ‘Bake.’ And it stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and into Canada . For years, U.S. oil exploration has been considered a dead end. Even the ‘Big Oil’ companies gave up searching for major oil wells decades ago. However, a recent technological breakthrough has opened up the Bakken’s massive reserves…. and we now have access of up to 500 billion barrels. And because this is light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 PER BARREL!
1. That’s enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 2041 years straight.
2. And if THAT didn’t throw you on the floor, then this next one should – because it’s from TWO YEARS AGO!
U. S. Oil Discovery- Largest Reserve in the World! Stansberry Report Online – 4/20/2006
Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush mandated its extraction. In three and a half years of high oil prices none has been extracted. With this motherload of oil why are we still fighting over off-shore drilling?
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