WAR

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I'm not sure self-serving is the proper term here...I know all that extra oil hasn't benefited me in the slightest.

You mean our presence in the Middle East hasn't had an effect on you? You call it extra oil, when in reality it's ensuring that oil flows freely from the region.

I think if that were to end, our means of getting oil here would be way more difficult and expensive, thereby changing our way of life.

Think again when you say it hasn't benefited you in the slightest.

I agree but look at the cost of gas!

I think it was Dick who once pointed out that in the old days, if you went to war, the victor obtained the spoils of war. I think we should own at least a third of the damn oilfields over there for our efforts. Sheesh.