As the British government's top advisor revealed this week in a remarkably candid interview with the Observer, Western business leaders don't care how many Iraqis die -- or who kills them -- just as long as their own profits can be guaranteed. It is the oil law -- not civil war, sectarian strife, or the cynical U.S. "surge" policy of arming all sides to guarantee continuing conflict -- that is holding up Western investment.
Fortunes of War: Death and Chaos No Problem for Profit-Seekers in Iraq
The US and France have denied Russian claim that Syrian air defence had intercepted at least...
