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Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele showed refreshing honesty in their reporting on the history of America's oil-driven meddling in Middle East politics [BUSINESS, May 19]. If you had run this as a cover story three months ago, you could have helped many naive Americans see the real motive behind the Bush Administration's war on Iraq: to colonize the country that has the potential to become the world's largest oil producer. I applaud you for reporting that the U.S. has created its own problems and enemies in the Middle East through decades of shortsighted, immoral...
Thank you for Barlett and Steele's historical analysis of U.S. foreign policy vis-a-vis oil. U.S. citizens need to understand the sordid history of our involvement in the Middle East and why our policies have led to widespread and virulent anti-American sentiment in the region. Sadly, the current Iraqi quagmire is yet another disastrous chapter. Our self-serving leaders continue to promote polices of deception and violence. We know now what the whole world sees: this war was not about weapons of mass destruction threatening our homeland but, once again, about securing oil for our wasteful...
...period of some 40 years. In implementing that policy, the U.S. government did not always have perfectly clean hands, but it was struggling against a regime as evil as those of Hitler, Saddam Hussein and maybe Mao combined. So the U.S. manipulated foreign governments! So what? Which do Barlett and Steele believe was the better option--giving in to the Soviets, or nuclear war? PHILLIP HAWLEY Galliate Lombardo, Italy...
...Barlett and Steele shed light on some of the dark consequences of America's bottomless thirst for oil. At a time when our national energy and foreign policies, oil-driven as ever, seem so heedless of the future, perhaps such lessons from the past can help galvanize our will to change. THOMAS R. MARTON Brookline, Mass...
...which was the Saudi Arabia of the first half of the 20th century, is finally running out. As a result, thanks in part to American policy that put an emphasis on foreign intervention rather than domestic conservation, Americans are more dependent than ever on imported oil. --By Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele