Back to your original point about being addicted to Middle East and world oil, the US used to be an oil exporter prior to WW2. It was the cutoff of Japan's supply when they attacked China, that many historians now believe forced them to attack us when they did. Their military machine and society was doomed without their oil supply so they needed to control the pacific region for the limited oil that was there.
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