Originally posted by -dead-
Noo my point is you can link Liberia to oil if you want to - if you can't, you're just not using enough initiative. 
It would certainly be advantageous to oil and shipping companies to have Liberia back as a non pariah country, because then they have a cheap registry that's prepared to look the other way over things like ownership/liability as well as possibly classification and manning issues. Last but not least, insurance claims are hard to obtain for foreigners, which is a bonus if your tanker has just spilt its guts out over a coastline. I doubt that's the sole reason for it, though. Good strategic position to have a base is a good reason, and diamonds might help too. Mostly I think it's a PR exercise partly to avoid looking like it was just about the oil in Iraq and partly to take everyone's mind off the continued fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. But I've always been a bit of a cynic.
Dead, If I use a lot of initiative I can link my beer cooler to oil, ever play the Kevin Bacon game.
I do think you are strertching it a bit though, keep looking I'm sure you will find evil in the US in anything it does.
