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it's silly to talk as if there was just one single 'reason'
for a very complex situation like the war .
it's not just about oil,
nor is it just about democracy,
nor is it just about terrorism,
it is a intermixture of all those
and several more factors as well.
why must folks try to boil such complexities
down to a single sentence ?
such a statement
like 'this war is about oil'
can only at best be partially true,
which also means
that it is partially wrong.
it's not just about oil.
oil is just one part of a much bigger picture.
to look for a singular cause
is to blind oneself to that bigger picture.
but i know why folks do it,
because it makes it easier to argue
their pre-existing point of view.
it's just a shoddy debate tactic.
there's even a latin term for the tactic,
but in essence by reducing the real complexity
to a singularity one can often portray the
cause as 'absurd', as our friend is doing here.
if oil were the only reason
then of course the government's 'cause'
is made to look bad,
which is the real intent here.
but anyone with enough of a mind to
understand/grasp the real complexities
will be un-impressed and un-swayed by
such flawed arguments.
and btw,
we have war plans for just about every nation on earth,
have had for decades,
bush did not create the iraq war plan.
the pentagon did, just like it does for
all possible problems we might face.
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