Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weapons that Iran has been buying are destabilizing." One example: a delegation of 20 Iranian experts recently visited North Korea to discuss the purchase of new ballistic missiles with a 600-mile range -- long enough to reach Saudi Arabia and Israel. North Korea is now receiving 40% of its oil supplies from Iran...
...motives of national interest. In a recent debate, Anthony Lewis called George Bush a "gutless wimp" for letting the Serbs overrun Bosnia. It was pointed out that the gutless wimp took half a million Americans to war to liberate Kuwait. "Yes," replied Lewis triumphantly, "he did because of oil, O-I-L, the famous three- letter word." Any wimp, you see, can go to war for some vital national interest. Real men go to war for reasons of right...
...morality. In private conduct, altruism is the ideal. For a nation, it can mean ruin. In private conduct, self-interest is a suspect motive. Intervening in a fight for reasons of right is the stuff of western heroes. Intervening in a fight because you need the weaker party's oil...
...would foot the bill depends, of course, on who agrees to ease the arms embargo. If the Afghanistan war of the 1980s is any guide, the U.S. might lead the operation, then pass the hat. The Muslims' current smuggling operations suggest the best paymasters: oil-rich Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia and the gulf states that have already shelled out money to Bosnian Muslim businessmen, who then procure the weapons. The smuggling routes also suggest how the newly sanctioned equipment would wend its way to Muslim fighters. Arms are shipped or flown to the Croatian capital of Zagreb, then transferred...
...Moon remains infectiously listenable. This is Mad Max music you can dance to. Several cuts even hold out a flicker of hope. Bushfire predicts a "new day/ It's larger than life, darker than death/ We're gonna move those mountains aside." And in Now or Never Land, Midnight Oil invites the listener to "dream a South Pacific dream of now or never land/ Suitcase full of good ! ideas/ History that's filled with tears/ Kill nostalgia, xenophobic fears/ It's now or never land." It's an urgent ultimatum from a band with a burning vision...