if we wanted oil, there would be no conspiracy. after the 2 countries were flattened we would have straight up told the world we are keeping the oil.
there is no shame in treating yourself to the spoils.
On course with this...
Something occurred to me recently. After constantly hearing people's opinions on how the US is terrible for involving itself in the Middle East and that we're only doing it for oil, I realized - why would that be such a problem?
Many of history's most documented and memorable conflicts, wars, campaigns, and/or empires have all had one thing in common...they were motivated by the pursuit for external resources (i.e. spoils). This is the way history works. If you want something, you take it. To assume otherwise seems illogical. The argument that the US should not be in the Middle East is based off of the assumption that we are there for humanitarian purposes...to liberate troubled governments and tribes from the oppressive yoke of Islamic radicalism. Perhaps this is the rhetoric that US leadership has fallen behind, but if we were in fact there to obtain oil in order to stimulate our own economy, why is that bad?
Various countries of Europe settled the Americas and exercised influence in Africa during the Age of Exploration for the purpose of economic and political gain. The Roman Empire conquered nearly all of Europe for the purpose of economic and political gain. Of course, not everyone agrees that these endeavors were favorable in nature, but the parties who are pissed off are typically the ones who have nothing to gain or no involvement in the matter.
It can be said that civilization was the result of selfish strides for land and resources by early cultures in Mesopotamia. Of course many more factors play into these examples, but in the end the purpose of occupying a foreign land was to strengthen the homeland. Whenever I hear arguments accusing the US of being invasive and "only in it for the oil," I wonder why it would be such a bad thing if that were the case.
I am not using this argument as a justification for our presence in Afghanistan, I am merely stating that IF the motive behind deploying our military to the Middle East is to obtain oil then (using history as a precedent) there is nothing wrong.
