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a good book on this question being debated below the surface here--michael klare, resource wars---interesting, historically situated analysis of the role energy-related materials have been playing in the reorientations of american foreign policy since more or less carter.
maybe we should start a book club....a reading room or something----where people arrange to read the same book on a given topic, and then could actually discuss/ fight about a detailed analysis of a complex situation.
the question of the sudan, for example, is quite complicated and has an extensive backstory---i know some things about it, but not enough to toddle into a full-blown interpretation of what is happening now--but i would be interested in checking out more...
just a thought.
klare's analysis--for example---is comprehensive and well-argued, but it is not at all obvious that you can simply use it as a guide for understanding everything about american actions in africa or elsewhere.....
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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