[Adam]

Home now...

Anyway, to wrap up the point I was trying to make, oil is always a factor in the US's Middle East policy, as you seem to agree with in your most recent post. There's an argument, which I almost agree with, that we'd be better off simply forgoing Middle Eastern oil than paying the high price (including lives lost) of maintaining the security of our sources, and "no blood for oil" is the simplest reduction of that argument.