Where should we draw the line on our greed? On our assumption that we can gain and own the world's oil resources at any cost? How much blood should be spilled for our oil?
I mean.....it isn't even OUR oil! Instead of just paying for it, we want to steal it, or pay these despotic rulers to continue their torture and murder of surrounding ethnic groups to control the oil for us. Where does it stop?
From the Guardian:
"Worse is to come: disgusted with the US's cynical alliances with their corrupt and despotic rulers, the region's impoverished populaces increasingly embrace virulent anti-Americanism and militant Islam. As in Iraq, America's brazen energy imperialism in Central Asia jeopardises the few successes in the war on terror because the resentment it causes makes it ever easier for terrorist groups to recruit angry young men. It is all very well to pursue oil interests, but is it worth mortgaging our security to do so?"
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