The new U.S. “Oil Imperialism”

10/20/2005 7:16:00 PM GMT

Long before the September 11 attacks, Bush's administration made plans for oil and war on Iraq. Days after this administration was incepted, a conflict has taken place inside the White House between the neo-conservatives at the Pentagon, on one side, and a combination of "Big Oil" executives and U.S. State Department "pragmatists" on the other.

The battle was over setting a new American foreign policy to elevate U.S. welfare internally and globally. However, the party that won the privilege of determining the destination of the globe was the “Big Oil.”

This new foreign policy is based on two foundations; a global "war on terrorism" and a global expansion to access to foreign oil. Nevertheless, both have emerged as one united body that stands as a strong contributor to increase the U.S. intervention in many countries' domestic issues and conflicts.

The winning group which a large portion of are part of what is known as The National Energy Policy issued a report of eight chapters on 17th May 2001 stating that all what the U.S. need in the coming years is to secure oil. The report that is referred to as Cheney Report; recommends in Chapter eight that titled “Strengthening Global Alliances,” “that the President makes energy security a priority to our trade and foreign policy.”

Indeed, this recommendation made insignificant areas all of a sudden of a strategic importance to the U.S.. This has surprised Dick Cheney as he commented on this by saying, "I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian."

"The Caspian Sea can also be a rapidly growing new area of supply," the Cheney report noted. "Proven oil reserves in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan are about twenty billion barrels, a little more than the North Sea."

The report proposed ensuring "that rising Caspian oil production is effectively integrated into world oil trade," and as we see today this was implemented by establishing permanent bases in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan.

In fact, this manipulation over others’ oil supplies would be either acquired by strong military might or by building strong ties or by peaceful means, as the report predicts that by 2020 the U.S. will consume two-thirds imported oil. Based on that the U.S. had to maintain its ties with Saudi Arabia, which has 25% of the world oil reserves, besides spreading oil suppliers around the world.

In his book, “Against all Enemies,” Richard A. Clarke mentions that Bush Senior was always thinking of ways in which he can put a direct hand on Iraqi oil, until Bush Junior holds office and fulfils his father’s dream in 2003.

Clarke illustrates that Bush asked Dick Cheney to find him a reason in which he can invade Iraq, after the administration failed to prove that Iraq had anything to do with September 11 attacks. Consequently, they decided that the reason would be the WMD’s, despite that they also had no tangible evidence for that either! It was all because of oil.

Bush’s admin has managed to fix the American public’s attention on the fake threat of “terrorism”, whilst it considers options to control the third world nations’ oil wealth.

The American President’s so-called “war on terror” and the struggle to secure the U.S. future of oil supplies are intertwined and will remain forever connected, which means an indefinite U.S. intervention in the political affairs of the oil-supplying nations, either by indirect assistance, like transfers and training programs, or directly by deployment U.S. combat troops.

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