Iraq used to sell oil to USA for a cheap prze, it would only cost as much as the weapons for silencing the hungry people would cost.
The americans thought that was okay, they got oil and the Iraqi people...Well, who cares if there's suffering in some Iraq?!?! But, then someone seemed to care, after all. And Bush sent his forces in there, because if Saddam had to be taken down, it had to be done by someone that would keep the situation as it was, oil ain't funny if it costs as much as feeding the people. When the new government in Iraq, propably guite america-friendly, will start to rule the land, the first thing it will do is that it will make a deal with USA, to ensure that americans will keep getting oil, for a small fee. The moneys would go to the people, but since there won't be enough for both the people and the government's palaces, wich won't be shown to media, the people will again be silenced with weapons. That's just plain OK with americans, their oil supply will be secured and the next war Bush starts will draw the media somewhere else. As we know, North-America and Europe depend on the hungriness of Africa, Asia and South-America. For North-America and Europe, becoming olny self-dependant would take the longest time. I have found a way to bring the world a lot closer to being right. Just deny any trade done between two different continents. That way, every monarchy would eventually fall, and the kings of the world, N-America and Europe, would become the least powerful ones when the trade would, after..Well, 100 years? be allowed again.
During that time, the dictators would run out of weapons and the people would take control everywhere, and when every continent could feed it's people since no-one would take the majority of goods for him/herself (it wouldn't be possible when all the food would be used and thieves would of course be punished by the righteous people.), every one would be happy. USA would be the last place in earth to stop monarchy, or as it's called there, capitalism. Other nations and continents would propably see that they depend on each other as much as a fish depends on the third moon of saturn.