All about what?

Posted by MacDood
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It's all about oil. It's not all about oil. We've all seen the charges and the counter-charges. "No Blood For Oil!" various activist groups chanted. "Sacrifice our SUVs, not our children!" they entreated. "Nonsense," others retorted, asserting that it couldn't possibly be all about oil "because the numbers don't work". The sad fact is that the numbers don't have to work... for everyone. The time horizons that many of these analyses use are misleading as well. What if the war isn't just about oil, but rather has come about as a complex confluence of interests, oil being a key but non-singular player, that benefit a subset of the American population to the detriment of the public good? [Kuro5hin.org]