Because of this.
20 Billion barrels is a lot of oil, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Mexico, Venezuela and Cuba form a little bloc, just like the Arab nations. I'm guessing their instincts would not drive them to be overtly friendly to the US, especially if we continue our neo-imperial foreign policy.
It's going to be hard for President Obama to solve this, without pissing off the wingnuts.
I think we're already in a situation where a whole bunch of armed people think that any Democratic administration is inherently illegitimate, and that if Barack Obama becomes President, the only way that could happen is if the election was stolen. If President Obama normalizes relations with Cuba, and ends the fake cold war, that could trigger a whole bunch of trouble.
The question I have in my mind, is whether we will have a second civil war in this country, with the Rollers and Christian Paranoids vs. everyone else. From a population point of view, it's a 40:60 split between the Christianists and the rest of us, and they're armed. Heavily armed.
This is the true danger of a Blackwater or similar company: a private army outside the control of any legal authority, and subject only to the whims of its owner, who happens, in the case of Blackwater, to be a true, balls to the wall, Christian Dominionist.
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