100 More Years of War for Oil
John McCain recently provided more evidence to support my claim that oil has played a significant role in the decision to send young men and women overseas to fight.
The sentence of concern:
My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will - that will then prevent us - that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East.
Of course he quickly derailed his “straight talk” express and claimed that he was referring to the first Gulf War — as though that somehow legitimizes starting a war over a commodity. Strangely though — or maybe not so strangely — his response when asked by a reporter, whether or not he was “thinking about the first Gulf War,” was “No.”
To suggest that he, or any other politician, seeks personal gain from securing Middle East oil, is probably off base. But, regardless of their intentions, the result of that policy is disastrous. I can’t find a way to justify sending Americans to kill and be killed for something that doesn’t even belong to us.