Foreign Policy and Oil Reserves: An Oil Analogy of Fear, Greed and Beer

2 simple equations with massive implications:
Greed+Oil= Power
Power+Oil=Ecological & Humanitarian Destabilization

As early as the 1920s superpowers such as Britain have been trying to colonize Oil rich regions. Conquests of the political boundaries they’ve created, such as Iraq, are coded in words such as stabilize, civilize or democratize. The U.S., victorious after WWII, picked up Britain’s nation building in the mid-east along with conquests in South America and again in Iraq. If you read outside the lines of history it becomes evident to what extent industry dominates political policy especially in the foreign arena. Hence a broad interlinked connection between what is now called "terrorism" (security policy) and the global race for dominance (foreign policy) over resources (energy policy). Oil has become a false sense of security and power for industrialized nations, an antagonistic vice to sustainability in ecological and humanitarian efforts.

Michael Klare, Professor of World Peace Studies and Security, is one of many leading policy thinkers who links Oil, War and U.S. Foreign Policy, this is concisely captured  in a video from www.freespeech.org. With so much evidence on an intellectual and historical level, what’s at stake in human lives becomes necessary to contemplate. In issues of war, economy and environment this natural resource has center stage, but trying to confirm publicly available geological statistics, that also agree, is near impossible. Masked as ideological warfare, it becomes a challenge to look beyond false beliefs blinding us with fear tactics of profit-controlled media.

Pub Crawl to the Desert
A most potent analogy of the global Oil fiasco comes from a Website project by Professor Bill Kovarik at Radford University, as well as Dr. Colin Campbell of ASPO. Here is an elaborated version of the analogy where Kovarik and Campbell ask us to imagine oil reserves as the Beer supply on a street full of Irish Pubs: