Our troops are there - but we don’t ‘take’ the oil - we buy it. What would be the difference if we totally pulled out - would they quit selling to us? Oil’s all they’ve got. Muslims don’t invent things, they’re not specialists in art, medicine, industry. They don’t win Nobel prizes for anything of value.
In the past we didn’t know how awful their beliefs were - but we know now. People who kill over cartoons, kill over books being burned, kill over a daughter holding hands with a boy, allow nine year olds to ‘marry’ 50 year old men - - how could we have known? We’re starting to know now... and we need to get out of every ME hellhole - and leave those people alone. When their oil dries up - or we discover a true alternative, there won’t even be reason to do business with them. That will be a happy day for them - and a happier day for us.
Perhaps we will be doing them and us a favor.
They will have to expand their horizons beyond oil wealth and Western Hatred.
We don’t need their oil. We have our own.
There will be an alternative someday, but that day hasn’t arrived and won’t for some time. In the meanwhile, we need to drill for our own oil and stop kissing the toes of these Islamic nutjobs.