Syriana a Review

Rarely does Hollywood come up with some serious commentary on US Foreign Policy and the forces that seek to influence and exploit it. Although a disjointed affair, the implication of the Oil Industry and how the Department of State viewed things in the Middle East as opposed to the Intelligence Agents in the countries themselves. Idealists seeking to promote democracy make choices that put them on the opposite side to State and the "National interest, and how that follows closely to the OIL Industries interests. We are learning that a fully liberal democracy in other countries (Think South America) does not follow that the resulting government will be interested in supporting the US when it considers it's own position in the World. China figured prominently in the background as a looming threat to this teleplay. How much it tracks real life will be upto individual assesment, in my opinion, I think it tracked well. It has always been about the OIL, and the US is determined to meet it's needs first, and being the US it can.