UNDERSTANDIN OIL :: essays research papers

The brutal attacks/bombings this week in New York, and capital of the United States D.C., along with threats of attacks there and elsewhere in the country have changed our clock forever. While the mass media concentrates on the details of the destruction, and the blanketed words of politicians, I willing attempt to understand and explain the events from the fence. BOMBING AND BEING BOMBED ARE THE said(prenominal) THINGS ON DIFFERENT SIDES OF THE FENCE. Terror is non a spontaneous piece action without credence. People just dont hijack planes and render harikari (suicide) without any weight of thought to the action. No one in the media seems to ask WHY DID THESE PEOPLE DO THIS HORRIFIC ACT OF personnel AND DESTRUCTION? To be able to understand the answer to this, we must number one look at our U.S. Mideast Policy. During most of the 20th century, U.S. businesses have worked on attaining oil colour rights and concessions from countries in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Af ter WWI, secret lynchpin door deals by our State Dept. yielded oil rights from then defeated bomb calorimeter to fields in what is now Iraq and Saudi Arabia, in return for look the other way at a crime against humanity, the Genocide of the Armenians by the Turks. Oil profits have been the motivating factors behind many attempts at counterinsurgency of democratic regimes by the CIA and the U.S in the Middle East (such as Iran in the 1950s, where the Shah replaced the Prime Minister who refused to give up oil rights to the U.S., and since the mass couldnt deal with the Shah, an extremist government headed by the Ayatollah Khomeini ultimately prevailed). During the Iran-Iraq war, the States supplied both sides with weapons and advice. These are not the actions of a rich superpower abstracted peace. Lets not allow for that Saddam Hussein, before being Americas vision of the Anti-Christ, was a close ally of the U.S., and the CIA. So what was the firm belief system of consecutive Am erican administrations that caused all this to continue ? PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST WILL LEAD TO higher(prenominal) OIL AND GASOLINE PRICES. Lets not also forget the power of the Arms industry, disguised as defense, that still sells billions of dollars of weapons to the area. Therefore it has not been in the short-term economic interest of the U.S. to foster Peace in the Middle East. Using the above reasoning, the U.