[Peace-discuss] Sociologist and urban planner James Howard Kunstler on Mideast oil

[C. G. Estabrook]

Probably wouldn't be too hard; the US gets less than 10% of its oil from 
the Middle East.

n.dahlheim at mchsi.com wrote:

> ...The US still has strategic interests in this part of the world. It would
> not be a good thing for Iran to gain control over the southern Iraqi
> oil fields. It would not be a good thing for Shia fundamentalism to
> be tempted to destablize the rest of the Arab world. The American
> public complains about this policing role in the Middle East, but is
> the American public prepared to do without Middle East oil?
>