>It would all be so much more palatable if everyone just said what it was really about; our entire way of life needs vast amounts of energy i.e. oil, gas. They have it. We want it. We have the biggest stick so we'll take it. Instead we add insult to injury and pretend that its all about democracy and saving the world from dictators and bringing freedom and other moralizing BS. Call a spade a spade.

Ah, but then they'd have to call friendly dictators, like Somosa, Noriega (while he was a good boy), Pinochet, Duvaliers, Saudis, shah Reza and others what they really were, and we don't want that, do we?