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by perl4ever 2155 days ago
> the US is primarily interested in middle eastern oil

This is a very vague phrase. The US does things which seem to drive up the price of oil, and things that seem to drive it down. The US economy also involves consuming a lot of oil and producing a lot of oil. So I don't know how you relate foreign policy in the mideast to that. "Interest in oil" can explain anything, anything that raises the price and anything that lowers it, and therefore nothing. Blaming the defense industry makes more sense to me, except that the US defense industry can and does sell arms worldwide, so why do they particularly need the US to be involved in a war?