Originally Posted by Rochard

I'm not confused at all. We've been ignoring Africa for decades and don't care, but if anything happens in the Middle East it's front page news. It's true, and I get that. But our oil doesn't come form the Middle East - It comes from Canada and Mexico. On top of that, the US is the world's third largest oil producer itself. The Middle East is important to Europe and China, not the US.

9/11 landed us in Afghanistan, a land locked country that has no oil. 9/11 has nothing to do about oil.