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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
Oil in the ME. OK, but who uses that oil? We don't. We get almost no ME oil; it goes to China and Europe. I don't see how oil in the ME is our reason to be there. let the countries who need that oil take care of the situation there. Lets take our $3T in aid to Egypt, and whatever else we spend over there, and come home.
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Isn't that akin to saying "I have diesel cars so WGAS if the gas prices go up."? Sure, even if 20% of the oil we use comes from the ME, their problem becomes our problem and not just China, India and Europe. Distabilizing the oil price there will hit our trading partners and also mess up the oil prices of the oil we get. I don't think you can simply say "Well, that is Saudi oil and we don't buy it so it cannot affect the price of other oil that we do use.".