The reason we buy the oil pumped out of the ground in the Middle East is because it's cheaper to pump out and better for refining than the oil we could continue to squeeze out of Texas, etc. ANWR, Florida, California, etc. are politically protected from oil drilling, cost isn't really the issue there. Buying oil is cheaper than going to war for it for everyone except the oil companies. The oil companies aren't the ones paying for the military.
Pretty much my point.
Yet you asert that the war isn't political?