Surging toward the holy oil grail

By Pepe Escobar

“I see the imminent death of 20,000 men,
That, for a fantasy and trick of fame,
Go to their graves like beds …
O, from this time forth,
My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth.”

Hamlet, Act IV; according to White House spin part of reading-adverse President George W Bush’s book list during the summer of 2006.