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.

Agreed, somewhat. Oil, to me anyway, is good for one thing: Getting my car (and me) from A to B. More oil = lower cost, yes? So what did I miss? Since we've been fighting over there, the cost has only gone up. We've given that oil all the freedom and democracy we possibly could, and yet it still costs me 15 bucks a day to drive to work and back. And it's not like America doesn't have its own stash anyway or the capacity to build on that stash. Americans are fighting to keep the rich people rich, make certain rich people even richer all while the rest of us get continually shit on for no good reason. Say, what do you suppose will happen when we've stolen...I mean bought up...all the available oil out there? What happens when no one else has any, but they see America sitting on a nice fat stash of it? What do you think happens then?