The Great Oil War: A Vision for Core Strategic Victory

Submitted by G Marcus (United States), Sep 22, 2009 at 08:38

We are currently in midst of the Great Oil War, instigated by the Yom Kippur attacks and the subsequent Saudi-led Oil Embargo of 1973, and just entered its final stage in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008.

It is impossible to win a war without identifying the core adversary, a fundamental infliction that has plagued the Western Alliance since the start of the Great Oil War some 35 years ago.

The core adversary the US and Western Alliance are facing is not Arab Imperialism; not Iranian-Shiite expansionism; nor their ideological tool Islamic Jihadism; neither their predominant technique, Terrorism; and in Israel's case, certainly not a so-called Palestinian-Arab nationalism.

The core adversary is "Oil Tyranny", a global regime that perpetuates our bondage to oil as monopoly transportation fuel, despite the availability of a clear potential non-oil alternative in the form of electric cars.

Israel may win many battles and skirmishes in the Great Oil War, but cannot win the overall war on its own, which will only be won or lost by the US as leader of the Western Alliance.

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