Oil has totally screwed up our relationship with Saudi Arabia (you are all muttering to yourselves - tell us something we don't know). Many of you think oil caused us to screw up in Iraq. While oil may have been a large part of the motivation to go in there, I still don't think it was a screw up. I think oil helped pressure us into doing the right thing in Iraq (Sidd, try not to puke when you read that) - but I digress.
We should put pressure on Saudi Arabia for all sorts of reasons (their schools of hate all over the middle east, their total internal economic incompetance, total lack of civil rights, beheading princesses who try and escaped arranged marriages etc.) but we can't pressure them because they are our crack dealer - which really sucks. But besides trying to get our dependence off of foreign oil, I don't know what we can do about it.
