U.S. Army 1st Lt. Andrew Dacey from the 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, reviews security checkpoints with Iraqi soldiers in the city of Abu Ghraib, Iraq, on March 31, 2009. Petty Officer 2nd Class Robert Whelan, U.S. Navy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons There is a common trope repeated each time the US responds to a terrorist attack or some other threat in the Middle East. People say, “The US only goes to war for oil,” by which they mean that the US seizes the oil of countries it goes to war with. This claim makes very little sense because the US is not facing a shortage of oil. It has the eleventh-largest oil reserves on the planet, is the world’s second-largest oil exporter, and…
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