@SeventhSense
Here is why I would disagree. Our presence in the middle east does not insure our oil supply. We spend tens of billions of dollars in the middle east that could be better used for the creation of clean energy.
Every Arab sheikdom, every democracy, every theocracy, every dictatorship and kingship and everything has shown a willingness to sell us oil. We do not assure our oil supply by being there. They need to sell oil far more than we need to buy it. Even the embargo against Iran doesn’t work. Iran will just sell what we would have bought to China, and we’ll buy what China would have bought from Canada or Russia. You can’t effectively embargo a commodity.
The ONLY time that our oil supply from the middle east has been threatened is when we were jointly embargoed by Arab nations in retaliation for our support of Israel.
I can’t see how our support and military helps assure our oil supply…...it hurts it. We spend money and the result is more enemies and a greater threat to our oil supply IMHO