You're right, but there's no reason we couldn't be.
Matter of fact our Mid East presence guarantees the free flow of oil at market prices to Europe and Switzerland.
No it doesn't. Since we started with our current version of a presence in the Middle Ease market prices have skyrocketed and show no signs of coming down anytime soon.
Casinos on the French Riviera do better at ensuring middle eastern oil flows freely because the sheiks like having money to spend on the gambling, liquor, and women that are provided to them.
No free flow of oil = no more gambling, no more boozing, and no more fornicatin'. That'd just be unacceptable.
They'll sell us oil alright. But each barrel will have a 30$ surcharge. They will use computerized GPS systems to track each tanker that comes here. Those who buck this system will get no oil. When Russia Iran China take over Mid East oil they will also levy a surcharge on Europe and Japan. Poor nations will get a small discount to provide cover.
You should visit the threads where the oil markets are discussed. You might learn something.
You are a master at stinging together irrelevancies and thinking you have made a brilliant point. And I love that Switzerland riff you have. I read Harry Brown books years ago where he extolled the Swiss and their semi gold backed currency
73 years old is all Harry Browne got to for all his alleged brilliance. Such an über libertarian could surely figure out how to do better than that