Nothing new under the sun, Digby on Syriana!

You need to go read Digby's post on the movie Syriana. It's about much more than the movie. I'm not going to do a lot of copy and paste here, you really should go read it in it's entirety, but I will give you this teaser.

Oil is certainly not the only reason we are in this mess. It is, perhaps, the fundamental reason we are in this mess. And it's the reason that this mess isn't going to be solved by either bringing the boys home or creating a "democracy" in the middle east. We may leave Iraq as an occupying force due to a lack of domestic support, or we might be chased from the region by violent events. But if we have any illusions that the United States is not going to be deeply involved in the middle east for the forseeable future, we need to wake up. Sadly, whether we know it or not, by our blind and profligate actions the American people lend credence to the insane ramblings of that miniskirted harpy, Ann Coulter:

"Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil."

Yes, everyone of us has to take some of the responsibility for the mess we are in. Driving an SUV to an antiwar rally is as hypocritical as anything the Republicans do. And yes, so is planning a "peace rally" in your 4,000 sq ft house. As consumers we drive the demand for black gold and as such are part of the problem.