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<blockquote data-quote="Mustard" data-source="post: 340425" data-attributes="member: 46">B.D. Calhoun is not a mafia don, but a mercenary hired to do a job. You don&#039;t double cross them. A lot of mercenaries tend to be ex-armed forces people who resent their bosses getting paid so much more money for doing much less work and for doing far less dangerous work. When J.R. pays him $1 million to blow up Saudi oil fields, and B.D. said when the cut off was, the job is on. J.R. not only tried to call it off later, but helped the CIA to double cross B.D. It was complete cluster on the part of J.R. and the CIA agent who muscled in on J.R. with the warnings.Mercenaries like B.D. Calhoun don&#039;t have loyalty to anyone except when they are doing a job that they have been paid to do by someone. If you double cross them, they are coming after you badly. Members of the bourgeois class in the US like J.R. Ewing at that time, who wanted to blow up Saudi oil fields to drive up the market price of oil in the US, were very much in a minority. J.R. was returning to his past form of breaking US federal law, like funding the counter-revolution in Southeast Asia to get back his previously nationalized US oil fields, or shipping oil to Cuba for huge sums of money during the Battle for Ewing Oil.Dallas had the power dynamics right. I was actually impressed.The CIA would usually succeed in burying all the evidence, but with Jeremy Wendell&#039;s powerful clout and Nancy Scottfield&#039;s determination, that was overcome. Once the truth had all come out, the CIA would no longer support Ewing Oil anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustard, post: 340425, member: 46"] B.D. Calhoun is not a mafia don, but a mercenary hired to do a job. You don't double cross them. A lot of mercenaries tend to be ex-armed forces people who resent their bosses getting paid so much more money for doing much less work and for doing far less dangerous work. When J.R. pays him $1 million to blow up Saudi oil fields, and B.D. said when the cut off was, the job is on. J.R. not only tried to call it off later, but helped the CIA to double cross B.D. It was complete cluster on the part of J.R. and the CIA agent who muscled in on J.R. with the warnings. Mercenaries like B.D. Calhoun don't have loyalty to anyone except when they are doing a job that they have been paid to do by someone. If you double cross them, they are coming after you badly. Members of the bourgeois class in the US like J.R. Ewing at that time, who wanted to blow up Saudi oil fields to drive up the market price of oil in the US, were very much in a minority. J.R. was returning to his past form of breaking US federal law, like funding the counter-revolution in Southeast Asia to get back his previously nationalized US oil fields, or shipping oil to Cuba for huge sums of money during the Battle for Ewing Oil. Dallas had the power dynamics right. I was actually impressed. The CIA would usually succeed in burying all the evidence, but with Jeremy Wendell's powerful clout and Nancy Scottfield's determination, that was overcome. Once the truth had all come out, the CIA would no longer support Ewing Oil anyway. [/QUOTE]

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