THIS I gotta hear!
Maybe you can clue us in on how we can extract ourselves from the world economy without plunging us back into a pre-industrial revolution life style.
America already buys only a smaller percentage of oil from the Middle East. In order to de-fund Islamic states, you must also convince the rest of the world to stop buying from them.
Mideast oil will be sold... to someone. If the U.S. refuses to purchase it, some other country (China?) will. The funds will still go into the Mideast whether we buy the oil or someone else buys it.
The oil market in general is a finite market. If we boycott Venezuela’s production let’s say...and buy only from our Norwegian Allies. Whoever was previously buying from Norway will then turn around and buy from Venezuela, so the effect is the same whether or not we buy from them.
So the argument that we are “funding our enemies” or “funding the spread of Islam” doesn’t pass the smell test. If we choose to use only our own domestic supply...we pay more for the production, depleting our cash and our natural resources while dropping the price of crude internationally as well.
Islam needs to be fought ideologically, psychologically and militarily...but where we buy our oil doesn’t offer an advantage or disadvantage to that end in my opinion.