It pure idiocy to argue that the West should of handed control of 2/3rds the world oil to Sandam Hussein.
Are the Saudis any better? Besides if we drill here, we have all the oil we need and we can tell the ME to FOAD.
You mean the same Saddam that was the biggest enemy of Iran?
Re: 54 - Agree 100%, sadly.
Sadly because such a policy is not without risks, as has been demonstrated again and again,
Heck, there’s doctrines named after it - Eisenhower, Nixon, Carter, and it’s all centered on one primary fact - that the Middle East still provides a lot of oil for the world. And that production and movement of oil is a national interest of the US.
And all via a market that is distorted by Saudi Arabia and OPEC. The US would for itself be in a better position from a security standpoint if the world oil markets were more open. They are hobbled by restrictions and barriers enacted on the producer side by a few sellers that make it problematic for the US oil companies to compete.