It is not a life blood when diesel fuel is 4 bucks a gallon.
And if you were stranded in a waterless desert for three weeks after a plane crash and the Water Genie showed up offering you a 55 gallon barrel of drinking water for the cost of your entire life's savings, you would consider drinking water as "not a life blood when it costs X hundreds of thousands dollars a barrel"?
Whether you like it or not, without oil, 21st Century society would be back in the 1850's.
Oil is the "lifeblood" of the current level of technology because internal combustion engines will not run on gold, silver or dollar bills.
If we are there to protect it, let's get some of it.
We are getting it. You may not like the price but we are getting it.
For an example of "Not Getting Any of It", see 1973 Oil Embargo.
Either nuke the *&^%^&'s back into the stone age or start taking some of the oil to repay us for our cost. ..... Either fight to win and get the oil or nuke them into absolute submission
You do not see the strategic Big Picture.
The Persian Gulf contains 70% of the World's known oil reserves.
Note the word "WORLD'S".
From that "waterhole" that keeps the machinery of a 21st Century alive, drinks not only America but every other country in the World including nuclear superpower Russia and nuclear superpower China.
In the strategic Big Picture, the Arabs are merely the irritating flies buzzing around the "waterhole".
In a nuclear fight to the death over access to the World's oil "waterhole", the nuclear fight will be with the World's other nuclear superpowers and not with the Arabs.
I am not in the least interested in continuing this endless bull going on in the mid east.
Then invent a replacement for all of modern society's internal combustion engines that does not require oil or discover a U.S. oil reserve that will meet all of America's needs for oil long into the future ( and, no, the ANWAR oil represents a drop in the bucket ) or find some way that the World's other nuclear superpowers no longer have any need for oil or find a way to achieve the nuclear disarmament of the World's other nuclear superpowers.
Until then, no matter how long it takes, America will have to be protecting its place by the edge of the Persian Gulf Oil "waterhole".
Or die of thirst as a modern society.
