America's Interests: A Bedside Briefing

This is was published on the Middle East Strategy at Harvard website in October.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/2008/10/americas_interests_a_bedside_briefing/

I would be surprised to find out what Obama thinks about this piece. Surely he would have some empathy for the humans living there and surely some of his policies will seek to make life better for Middle Easterners, but he can't deny that the end of Middle Eastern oil shipments to us would put America's position as the most powerful force in the world in grave danger. A feverish race to find an alternative source of energy his already begun, but don't expect any major changes in the direction of U.S. policy until we are completely energy independent, which is to say well after Obama is no longer president.