The American Resource Wars

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The paper shows that the U.S. has viewed oil, along with other national resources, as an item of national security for a very long time. Because the demand for natural resources is so high and the U.S. relies so much on imported oil and other resources, resource wars will undoubtedly be an important part of U.S. affairs. The paper discusses how the U.S. has organized its foreign and military policies so much around the protection of oil and other natural resources that it often gets itself involved in other countries' affairs, which turn into turbulent resource wars.

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"This war was actually started in Saudi Arabia, through ploys by anti-government extremists like Osama bin Laden to overthrow the royal family and install a more doctrinaire Islamic regime. Due to the fact that Saudi Arabia is the world's leading oil producer, the United States would suffer if it allowed these extremists to overthrow the Saudi regime. This is why the U.S. is so involved with the war, which is obviously, for us, a resource war."

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