What is unreasonable about that?
Where did I say it was unreasonable? To the Saudis, it is quite sane.
I was simply commenting that, if we are ever going to be able to apply serious political military or political pressure on them, we have to dilute their impact on world oil markets. And if we restore Iraq as a major producer, that is a step in that direction.
Of course, it would help even more if we developed ANWR and the eastern Gulf, and got serious about coal gasification.