OIL = U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY

Clearly... U.S. Middle East policy has been and is all about oil, as we have stated on numerous occasions in the past..... Current problems have arisen because when the most recent strategy was formed nobody had the guts to say what it was all about because the lawyers, accountants and PR political strategists in Washington thought it looked "greedy" and "imperialistic."

We have leaders in Congress and elsewhere who know what America's long term strategies are but their opportunistic approach to politics makes it "troublesome" for them to get the explanation past liberal opportunists who are looking for something outrageous to attract attention to themselves.... (Please continue)

...The previous group is joined by the Hollywood phonies and the pseudo intellects at the New York Times. This crowd could care less what happens because "hardship" to them is not getting their latte on time. They take their wealth and their position for granted and believe it is so secure it cannot be damaged and anyway they are thoroughly bored by "ordinary" uses of their wealth and prosperity. They can spout treason to the rooftops and it gets them more press, more attention and they get "fawned over" by the over educated but still ignorant liberal student crowd. The entire bunch won't get a clue until the Taliban shoots their way onto their estate or into their subdivision and force feeds them a rack full of Burkhas and a truck load of Korans.

Are there people in this country at high levels of government and in educational institutions who don't really know what America's strategy regarding the Middle East has been since Herbert Hoover was Secretary of Commerce? Every President, Democrat or Republican through Ronald Reagan understood why we were in the Middle East, that we had developed the resources there so we could have the benefit of cheaper, more accessible oil than anyone else in the world. Everyone from the kid buying gas for a lawnmower to the lowest level employee at Walmart knows that our economy and, thus, our prosperity, is literally built on oil resources. Since Reagan, we have either lost why we have pursued that policy or Presidents have been unable to translate it in terms that could be understood.

It's hard to believe there could be so much pure hogwash being peddled in high places AND among people who's business it is to think about economics, our standard of living, and our ability to defend our interests. This country is what it is because of the relatively easy access to competitively priced natural resources. Things are more available and have, on balance, cost us LESS than these same things have cost others. That's why WE have the standard of living we have and why we are able to send the best trained and best equipped military anywhere in the world when we are threatened, PLAIN AND SIMPLE. Its not rocket science, it's just economics 101. Throw away the idea that we are going to develop anything that competes with oil within the next 20 years. The ethanol argument is borderline ridiculous and simply politics gone berserk. It's time to face the facts. We need the Middle East in order to save our economy and that's why we have been there since the 1920's and that's why we are there now!

There is no justification for the "guilt trip" we are on about BUYING, USING and PROTECTING our interest in Middle East oil! When you get right down to it, we have as much claim on the energy resources of the Middle East as do those who sit on the real estate. We found the oil, we provided the capital to develop it, we marketed it, and if it weren't for us, the potentates of Middle East countries would still be living in goat skin tents and in between mud bricks, raiding each others camps for women and food and herding sheep between grass patches. Yes, they were once great, but then somebody sold the many nutcase radical ones a justification for attacking civilization and the idea of "Jihad" was born!