“For what, so some American bid ness men can make bundles of money at the expense of our boys?”
Yes, that was part of the reason.
However, natural resources are also critical to national security.
A severe fuel shortage in the USA would be devastating and can easily result in a collapse with millions dead. I see nothing wrong with using the US military to secure necessary resources while such a threat exists.
“War for Oil” is spouted by the hippies to sound terrible but we would all be nearly dead without oil and some rare earth minerals.
Currently we are producing more energy than we need.
Course obammy’s friends hate coal so that is off the table.
And North shore oil is a no go as well as Canadian shale oil.
Other than some “rare minerals” we have most everything we need.
Course if butt heads restrict oil, coal, natural gas exploitation including fracking then hell yeah, let’s rely on Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.