Isn't it ironic that we are questioning the US foreign policy on a car site??
The only reason we are building military bases, patrolling the arab nation's waters, and spying on them is to protect US interests. What is that?
OILThe real reason we even give a damn, is because we are still in the Cold War mentality, that we need to preserve our oil "reserves". We have plenty of oil to last us at least for decades. If we haven't found a better way of transportation by then, shame on us all.
Big oil companies and their lobbyists are the reason for all this nonsense. Not to mention the polititians that agree with them.
Sorry,
-Chris