What, War Drums.......AGAIN!!!!!!

            It would seem that the good ole U.SofA, under the leadership of Nobel Peace Prize 'Winner' Barrack Obama, has decided that the whole worlds just far too quiet these days and what we really need is the distant sound of cruise missile explosions to liven the place up a bit. And, seeing as we have a bunch of chinless Oxford wonders governing the U.K at the moment, we'll be dragged down another warmongers road that will undoubtably end with another financial recession caused by the collosal amount of money that these sort of policing campaigns,  flush down the damn toilet. The truth is that, yet again, this is all about oil or the lack of on the world market. Negotiations between Coronel Gadaffi (didn't think coronel was that high a rank in the armed forces, surley Marshall would be better)  France and Britain about the sale of Lybian oil to the world market broke down about two months ago and America has made up a load of old pony about the infringement of human rights going on in Lybia as a justification to remove Gadaffi from rule.
               
              Now look, the whole world and his wife knows that Gadaffi is an arsehole, the whole world and his wife knows about the lybian connection with the bombing of the Pan-Am flight that went down over scotland, and the world and his wife knows damn well that Lybia is not the kind of place that wins a five star rating from Amnesty International over the treatment of political prisoners.This stuff has been known about the place for eons so why in the name of all that's holy are we all of a sudden rattling sabres? Oil is a powerful motivator in international politics these days. It's running out all over the world and the western governments need horrendous amounts of it to keep thier economies moving. Unbelievable amounts of the stuff actually and Opec won't produce enough of it. They're not stupid, they know that the less they produce, the more the price of a barrel of the stuff goes up. As a by-product of this thinking, also the less they produce, the longer thier reserves last and the more money they make.
           
               So what does that mean for us? Well, we, the everyday joe in the street end up paying through the nose to put any kind of fuel in any kind of motor vehicle. Truth is, Britains oil production is painfully insignificant next to say, Saudi Arabia's and the oil that keeps our country trundelling along has to come from somewhere. So, yet again the governments of the west call the shots, fire the artillery and it's the tax payers who end up footing the bill, and what a grossley exaggerated  bill it is. The way that arms are produced in the U.S.A is hardly now, nor has it ever been, cost efficient. As way of an example, most motor companies need thousends of individual componants for the vehicles they manufacture. Say Vauxhall need a headlamp switch for their new saloon car, they invite tenders from componant manufacturers from all over the world. ( actually they will have a list of the componant manufacturers that General Motors will allow them to commision parts from, but we will come to that later  ) These companies design or redesign an existing componant that satisfies the technical requirements of the switch needed and give a cost per unit of manufacture back to Vauxhall, and , because Vauxhall is run by accountants not engineers, they will almost exclusively pick the lowest quote.

                  The American arms manufacturers run a slightly different ship so to speak. Yes, they too need componants for the weapons systems that they produce but the lowest bidder rarely gets a look in. They will tender out to manufacturers worldwide but the companies chosen to actually make the part in question, will almost cirtainly be affiliated to say, a Congressman who wants technical manufacturing done in his particular constituency or a Senator who just happens to be on the board of 'Switches R Us' or a Vice President who is favouring one tender over another purely for political reasons. Add to these shannanigans, America's secret funding for black operations, secret organisations, or top secret weapons developement all coming out of legitimate costing from arms manufacturing and all of a sudden the price of said switch goes through the fucking roof. This is just a switch remember, put two thousend of these parts together as a missile system and all of a sudden you have a invoice that would make Bill Gates swear. These weapon systems are being used on Lybia as I type this out and Britain is paying for a very large chunk of the bill.

             
             So what do we conclude from this political mess? Seems America stands to make an awful lot of money from deposing Gadaffi, also from the armourment used during the campaign, the bill to put Lybia back together again afterwards and of course the oil that they will have access to thanks to the America friendly eagit that they put into power afterwards, we get to pay through the nose for the armourments used and the fuel to drip into our audis, hey presto everyone's a winner. Not quite. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this anyway for the most powerful nation on earth to behave'? America behaves as the police to the world but who police's the police, cirtainly not the U.N. America never takes any notice of them at all, they didn't in Iraq why should they now. Truth is America is only interested in America's interests, sod everyone else and I for one am getting more than a bit sick of being part of a nation that is considered 'America's Special Friend'. Britain needs a government with backbone enough to tell the white house to 'SOD OFF WE CAN'T AFFORD IT'. With this kind of foriegn policy, the U.S.A is going to find itself with no friends at all. As Jimmy Carr once said "in the future, the world will only have two flags, America's and a flag for everyone else, and the 'everyone else' flag will be identicle to America's, except it will be on fire.