No Exit

Stephen Rebello interviews uebercapitalist Lee Iacocco (.pdf):

How would you rate the priorities Bush and his friends have set?

Forget the economy, global warming, our infrastructure of roads and bridges
that are rotting away. And forget health care, which is a scandal, and is our
Achilles heel. A civilization that doesn’t take care of its young people and their
young minds through education, and that doesn’t take care of its aging parents?
Do you think our priority was going to Iraq, really? They didn’t have
nuclear bombs that I knew of. We’re in a war we should never have gotten
into, and yet they haven’t resolved the nuclear powers like North Korea and
Iran, so the priorities are wrong. Meanwhile, it’s going to be a half-trillion-dollar
war in Iraq. And we brought what to them? Democracy? I think we brought
them civil war. We’re after oil. Hitler bombed the hell out of Romania because
he wanted the oil fields. Before Pearl Harbor, we forget how we were twisting
the Japanese in the wind and shutting off their oil supply. No matter what you
talk about, every real confrontation is based on fossil fuel because we’re just
hooked on it. Selling nukes to India? Common sense has gone out the window.
You can tap my phone without a warrant? Where is the media? I would
think they’d be outraged at the way they’ve been conned. And the Democratic
Party is sitting on its hands. What are they doing, worrying about running
Hillary? Where is our country headed?