by Tim Mccardle

Created on: June 28, 2008

War for oil. Why not?

If anyone actually reads this, I'm probably about to draw the hatred of every liberal in the world. The reason for this is that I am going to blog about something from a strictly strategic point of view with regard to historical perspective. Liberals are so committed to their Utopian world view that they seem to not realize that this world is far from safe and peaceful. They also refuse to allow into the public discourse the use of the United States Armed Forces as a strategic asset for the greater good of the United States.

Throughout world history great powers have used their military advantage as a means to increase the power and prosperity of their nations. Liberals call this imperialism, but it seems far more like common sense to me.

The US Army seems to understand that strategic assets are far more important than squalid populations. When we invaded in 2003, what did we protect? The people? The government infrastructure? The cultural heritage? No we protected the oil fields!

I will blog in the future as to how this strategy was the reason why we lost the support of the populace, and got stuck in an intercene conflict for the foreseeable future, but for now I'd like to look at an alternative to our current methods of war fighting and nation building. If the United States were to use its military advantage to secure strategic interests only(and let local populations do as they wish) then our forces would fight only small conventional battles in which casualties would minimum because our armed forces are nearly invincible in conventional warfare.

The reason this comes to mind is that Hugo Chavez s convinced that we are going to invade his country, and he is seeking advice from the FARC, a Colombian communist rebel group, on unconventional warfare tactics. If the blowhard Chavez were to do something drastic, like cut off the oil that we enrich him with, but that we depend on for the entire US economy then the possibility of invasion would rise exponentially. If we were to invade yet another oil-laden country can we at least admit that oil is the one strategic interest worth fighting for?

Historically, great military powers simply either killed or enslaved the local populace when they wanted a strategic interest someplace in the world. The United States commits itself to the Marshall Act model in every conflict it seems. The guise for this is that if we don't install a popular government it will become a safe haven for terrorists.

I think we

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