Oil's Role In the Iraqi War and the Middle East

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crucial role in the development and progress of every country around the globe and the bigger a country is, the more it owes its success to oil. As Ciaran McKeown writes "Oil black gold is the most important commodity on Earth. All of the incredible technological development of the last 150 years owes the pace of advance to it. Stability and security of oil production and distribution is absolutely vital to the survival and economic growth of developed countries. There is, therefore, at one and the same time, ferocious competition for oil, and a common vested interest in its steady supply and price. .." (Ciaran McKeown, 2003)

We need to understand that media may try to capitalize on our worst fears and feel that oil reserves around the world are running out, the truth of the matter is that oil itself is not vanishing. Oil reserves around the world are enough to meet the demands of growing population but in order to be able to utilize them efficiently; we need proper ...

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reserves. The supply shortage, naturally, led to soaring oil prices." (Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed)

Since oil reserves in the United States are incapable of meeting the rising energy consumption demands, the one question that is disturbing the public is 'what is he government doing about the situation'. We all know that our government is not sitting idle and is certainly doing something to increase oil supply. But what exactly is being done. This is a very controversial question and one that has given rise to a passionate debate about the morals and ethics of tactics allegedly being used by the United States to meet energy crisis. Many people are of the view that Iraq war and other ...

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