Veterans expect pro-energy leaders
November 23, 2014
Oregon Catalyst
The below was written by Aaron Moran, Oregon chair of Vets4Energy. He served with the U.S. Marines from 1999 to 2003 and studied at Metropolitan State College of Denver.
Next year we'll celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. There have been several major wars in the intervening decades - Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq - and countless smaller conflicts, but, thankfully, none of that monstrous magnitude.
It is deeply disturbing to me, as a young man who served as a Marine in Iraq, to be suddenly hearing talk of a possible World War III arising from the spiraling violence in the Middle East. What makes this talk so unsettling is its plausibility, and the knowledge that such a disastrous global struggle could have been averted if American leaders had pursued wiser policies.
What, after all, has made the Middle East a geostrategic focal point for so long but its possession of vast reserves of the oil we and our allies need to sustain our economies?
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