Oil, Iraq,The U.S. and Violence.

I’m going to take the lazy man’s way out on this essay and let some one else explain the meaning behind my subject heading. For one, the Fulbright Scholarship student who wrote this is much more informed than I. For another, I’d just be reiterating his paper- so why not just have you read it? I don’t want to water his argument down into a nice 3 paragraph summation. It wouldn’t do it justice.

However, I’ll say this.

Last night I watched Al Gore’s ‘Inconnvient Truth’. It had an impact on me that I wasn’t expecting. He didn’t say much that I had not read already- but when you see it, the pictures, the graphs..it really hits home. As they say, ‘A picture is worth a thousand words.’ There really is no issue greater to my generation than our environment today. The violence in Iraq, as it equates to protecting our interest there-i.e Oil, seems to have a direct correlation to not only our Foreign Affairs but also to our environment. The skeptics can mock and criticize but the more you read and understand and the more you know about this- the more you realize that there is no argument- there are no real skeptics- this is an issue that involves everyone regardless of religion or politics or even money. This is a moral issue that needs everyone’s attention-because it’s something we can change collectively.

The essay is more about how the theft of oil contributes directly to the escalation of violence in Iraq- but tell me if you don’t see the bigger picture here- a connection between oil, war, US foreign policies, our economy and ofcourse,the environment. It’s all related and the common denominator?

You guessed it. Oil.

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January 12, 2007 / 8:32 am
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