My name is Capitalism and I am an oil addict

A beautiful warm morning, and a fine 65 minute run, spoiled only by further thoughts of hypocrisy.
In many private hospitals treatment will only be delivered if the patient's financial credit is good, regardless of how sick or vulnerable they may be. The same seems to be the case at a macro scale too. Libya has the largest oil reserves in Africa, and the 9th largest in the world, and Iraq possibly has the largest oil reserves in the world, which makes the noble rhetoric about humanitarian intervention and prevention of terrorism sound very hollow indeed.