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In any time of political turmoil, especially when involving OPEC member countries (such as when Iraq invades Kuwait), the influence Saudi or even OPEC as a whole has over the price of oil diminishes drastically. This has never been more clearly demonstrated than right now.
I don't see how Germany and France were being hypocritical. They may have questionable ethics, but I don't see any hypocrisy in their actions. Unless you can show me otherwise. Maybe I'm wrong.
I also don't remember calling you a hypocrite. Unless you are the US.
The US did not act alone in Somalia nor on their own initiative, and to say that "no-one else gave a shit" is doing a great injustice to the 20+ other countries who were part of that UN deployment. They were deployed after the UN asked for assistance from its members to be part of a UN peacekeeping force to protect the UN humanitarian mission there and to ensure that food aid reached the populace and did not fall into the hands of the warlords. In fact, it was widely suspected at the time that Bush the First only agreed to the deployment in order to create a problem for Bill Clinton, who had already been elected president and was due to take office a month later.
Anyway, we've drifted right off the topic of discussion, so I'll leave it there.
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