This week's Occasional Quote of the Week (borrowed from B&S):

"...the good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all things considered, one would not normally choose to go. But, we go where the business is." --- V.P. Dick Cheney in a 1998 speech to the "Collateral Damage Conference" of the Cato Institute