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Energy backfires again as tool of foreign policy

08/25/2008
As Arab oil exporters learned after their targeted embargo of 1973-74, energy has its drawbacks as a tool of foreign policy.The US must take that point now as it reacts to Russia’s bloody bullying of Georgia.No one should forget the maneuvering behind the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline and South Caucasus gas line, which parallels BTC as far west as Erzurum, Turkey.The BTC route was not the most economical outlet for Caspian production.But it had a geopolitical advantage: It didn’t transit Russia, which controls other Caspian pipelines; Iran, with which the US for long has been at odds; or Armenia, which has longstanding animosities with Azerbaijan and Turkey.The US gov...
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