ChrisL
Diamond Member
Again, casualties of war.
Of course, unless you want to be at each others throats ALL the time, we have to deal with these dictators.
We have no good reason to be involved in any of this.
This is something I figured out during the first Gulf War, when I realized it made no difference if Saddam or the Emir of Kuwait controlled the Rumalia Oil Fields.
It's just simply not OUR problem.
Well, you do have a point, considering the US does not purchase much oil at all from the ME.
true. But we treat that like it's the most important thing. Not because we get much oil from the Persian Gulf, but when we can't get it from there that easily, the oil we DO get from Canada or Venezuela becomes that much more pricey.
We should have started looking into alternatives in 1974, the first time they pulled this shit. We didn't.
Believe me, I would like nothing more than to wash our hands of the whole entire area.