The justifications of our foreign policy in the Middle East have been clearly documented and freely available from many sources. To say that we are in Iraq because if oil, or that we will not leave because of oil is a simplification, but nonetheless, it is true.
However, the saber-rattling over Iran requires some brief examination. The United States is currently attempting to keep the Middle East's resources (oil) out of the control of the Asian powerhouses of China and India.
Russia has been providing or selling technology to Iran to the objection of the United States.
China and India just want to keep growing exponentially (greed works in the ancient cultures too).
Russia, China, and India all want Iran on their side. Iran is much more likely to oblige them considering the recent accusations that have flown from the West. Moscow has recently been making noise about a gas and oil exchange to tip the scales further away from western exchanges.
It seems that the last six years in Iraq have resulted in little more than fewer options for bush to position himself (and us) in an exceedingly hostile world. Iraq? We cannot leave because the Shia will take over and align themselves with Iran with or without the Kurds. That leaves the oil producing Middle East making China and India the new U.S. The U.S. is relegated to UK status.
That's the best case scenario, if the rest of the world continues to switch out their dollars for Euros or whatever else, and the superficially inflated wealth of millions of flipped houses becomes worthless, well then you might even have the old new Russia.
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