It is not merely enough to say there is renewable energy available, thus we should be able to break our addiction on oil. Oil is an extremely valuable resource, our country, the world would collapse without it. Forget the fact that it is the life blood of economy and industry; petrochemical products are used all around us.
The thought in policy behind Iraq, I seem to gather is, our presence there is more of a pre-emptive defensive position as would control the flow of oil out of Iraq, that is the key. As noted, America only gets 3% of our oil from Iraq, I think it only rises to around 25% for the entire middle east; America doesn't get its oil from Iraq or the broader middle east, countries like China, Russia, and various Western European states do. Granted the current policy is if not currently faltering, not stable for what was wished to be achieved, so that greatly complicates things. THe problem is down the line when countries like China begin to emerge more and more on the global scene and threaten our status as the global hegemon. So when China really starts sucking down the oil, predicted to account for 75% of the worlds imports in 15 years time, having influence over a stable country, with a butt load of oil, with bases in a region with even more oil, it plays in our favor. Also the trends would tend to show that as we regulate the global power politic scene, other countries are demilitarizing, at least in respects to western Europe.
So to say and assume that if we all had been driving hybrid-electric cars, living in efficent domiciles powered with solar power or wind turbine energy, we would be better off and none of this would've happened, is simply nieve and shows a lack of understanding about the geo-political scheme.
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