aDCBeast@11515, it is so simple to just say "American corporations want Arab money" isn't it? It is more difficult to actually back the statement up though. The more education one gets in such matters, the more one starts to realize that issues like these cannot be reduced down to black and white like you are doing. The issues are enormously complex and the average person just cannot fathom it, and therefore compensates by filling in their huge gaps of knowledge with conjecture completely determined by their political and philosophical leanings. First of all, from a geopolitical strategy point of view, it is very prudent for our leaders to encourage those that control a VITAL world resource to trade it for fair market value. There is NOTHING MALEVOLENT about that. If they did not do so they would be simply be incompetent and remiss in their duties to protect and improve our society. (thank god people like you are not making the big decisions for our societies) Demanding that someone trade at fair market value is not stealing. If so, then I guess the western world has been stealing fairly priced Toyotas from Japan for far too long. Of course the difference between Toyotas and oil is that oil is a scarce non-renewable resource that is the backbone behind a modern civilization. Most people do not understand how incredibly important energy is to their own standard of living. It goes WAY beyond making our cars move. Modern industry is the largest consumer of energy. The modern world cannot afford to allow extremist sociopathic tyrants to control and blackmail society with this vital resource. So I see nothing wrong with encouraging moderate, reasonable, and rational regimes in oil producing regions, the ends being to obtain oil for FAIR MARKET VALUE.