[quote=FlyerInHi]it’s not even a sharp focus on resources access and acquisition. It’s more about megalomania. Like a real life chess game.
If it were just wealth accumulation, we’d be focused on commerce, trade, education and infrastructure — anything that creates more capital turnover and more productivity.
Vietnam was a disaster and did not get us an ounce of resource.
Iraq was worse than Vietnam. There was the promise of resources, but that never came. We would have been better off doing business with Saddam Hussein to develop oil fields and increase trade.[/quote]
It is ALWAYS about resources and the power we attain via control/ownership of those resources.
