I equate theft as theft.  Do I do it?  Yes I often do personal things on company time.  They could fire me for it.  They probably won't (although it would likely be brought up as an excuse if they ever did want to fire me ,or would add it on to the list of offenses).  But I won't beat around the bush and say I don't steal.  Because it is what it is.
 
It's obvious that I'm wrong here, so I'll bow out of the discussion.  I've said what I wanted to say, and we'll disagree on some things.

I think that fossil fuel is of equal or lesser importance to the ability to transport energy, and both are largely secondary in importance to money.  India and China have populations which are to large to support with energy-poor agricultural methods at this point, and the situation shows no sign of letting up.  If they were deprived of fossil fuel energy sources, their populations would starve and revolt.  And as long as we in the US have the ability to provoke this outcome, we have tremendous leverage.  Our compliant bitches (Europe, Austrailia, Canada) can tag along if they cough up some resources and manpower when told to.

Controlling the fossil fuel resources of the Middle East creates a situation where we can run enormous trade deficits as long as the situation persists.  I personally can write as many checks as I like as long as I am sure that they will not be cashed, and so can the US.  So, unlike a lot of people, I am of the opinion that deficits do not matter and the logical strategy is to make hay while the sun shines.  Exactly as we are doing.

We are looking at population growth rates which makes starvation (and/or war) inevitable within the foreseeable future.  If we can maintain our position, we might be able to keep our people from starving and steer the high casualty producing conflicts to take place among starving peoples (who will be to weak to even dream of taking us on.)  Maybe we can perpetuate and control the conflicts with just drone strikes from within the safety of our own territory.

Your entire logic is flawed. You just like to insult and scare away people. Yes i will continue messaging you, i hope one day you'll have the balls to speak to me.

Maybe they bought insurance.  And shorted the stock market.  And leveraged up on oil.  And ...

There was certainly an overall loss, but individual profits could certainly outweigh individual losses if you knew when and where it was going to happen.

You then plow all your profits into gold, and slow it off slowly at the new, elevated prices.

So, let me get this straight: the US destroyed tens of billion of dollars worth of real estate to scavenge less than half a billion dollars in gold. 

Yeah, that sounds reasonable 

It is you who liberally drinked too much kool-aid.
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/gold.html
http://911review.com/motive/gold.html

America brought down the towers to hide that they stole all of the gold from the basement. They had to pay back China for the gold they were shorted in another unpublicized theft. So now the gold market, under an artificial inflation, will remain until they sell all of their stolen gold without crashing this high price.

.. to big and awkward to hold to your face... I dont think I'd mind.  Im talking about ~7" BTW