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viewed is as a chance for him to get de facto control of the largest oil reserves on earth
Denial of access is as valuable as gaining access, and easier to do. Denial of access to someone else's resources, increases the value of the resources that you *do* have control of.
The Iraq op didn't demonstrate that they didn't care about those things, just that they were naive and unprepared
Rant #1 holds that chaos was the intended outcome in Iraq. We will see how Venezuela works out. Seems that imposing a Gringo dictatorship, as the Pirate King insists, would be the most likely to inflame the Venezuelan people, and promote chaos.
Steve
