So you would chose the Ostridge method of burry your head in the sand to the facts and discount it all is fiction over facing reality? Read the book "See no Evil" by the ex-CIA agent, or use Google and type in Oil, Middle East, and Politics and see what you get.. here is some help ( http://india_resource.tripod.com/mideastoil.html )

Reality is my friend, America isn't perfect, sure we're probably more perfect than most, but we're far from living the Christian message.

Yes, we do these things, and yes we do them in the name of oil. Study the history of the Middle East, the creation of the various "Kingdoms" and the British occupation, followed by American transition of power in the region.

Study it for yourself. Don't just take the Fox news or Rush Limbaugh version as Gospel.

Delta pilots are known to be educated and worldly people and my experience with the ones I knew is that this is true.