Arms & Oil - "It's the same business" Syriana dir. Stephen Gaghan on Henry Rollins Show

Director Stephen Gaghan (Syriana, Traffic) on conversing with Mr. Garfield on IFC's The Henry Rollins Show, about what he learned researching for Syriana.

After touring around the Middle East with the CIA's former Iraq Bureau Chief, Robert Baer, and meeting every large oil and arms dealer (as well as Hezbollah's spiritual leader, Sayyed Fadlullah), he shares their assertion that the arms and oil businesses are the same thing.

When the world's energy supply is declining, your nation's consumption far outpaces the rest of the world, your entire national infrastructure is built upon the expectation of cheap abundant fossil fuel, and your foreign policy has excluded you from extracting oil from the world's potentially 2nd largest oil supply... what do you do?

You initiate a war to reset the table. You country now has a seat at the table for that oil, and the nation you went to war with, now needs arms to protect itself from your mutual enemy (Iran.) Thankfully, a large portion of your economy is built upon arms exporting, and your new friends have plenty of the currency used to trade for it. It did cost your trillions of tax dollars to pull it off, and your new friends' population could use that wealth.. but now, you got that oil, and they've got those 'guns.' Massive economic restructuring of America averted! Gotta keep it going though... who's next?

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Hmmn, energy hungry country, that is the world's largest weapons manufacturer and exporter needs oil, and a reason to buy and use weapons (to restock its reserves, and make a nw client out of its pacified/occupied former enemy...

Anyone wanna take a guess?

It's the system that was designed, and what it has created is just its logical conclusion. Eisenhower saw it coming a half century ago..

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