All he does state is about a few jobs but the US doesn't have people working in Persia.
He says it’s about keeping big paying Jobs what Jobs?
He then talks about oil, specifically Persian Oil on the world market. But the US buys South American Oil very little on the spot market.
Robert Higgs
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which is precisely the point: U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East serves the purposes of specific U.S. economic entities, which in turn more or less control the policies by the way they exercise their financial muscle in U.S. politics.
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He says who he believes control policies but not what the policies are or their purpose.
So I ask again
"The Real Purpose of US Mid-East Policies"
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When you do so, I believe you will find U.S. policies in the Middle East to have been wildly successful, so successful that the gains they have produced for the movers and shakers in the petrochemical, financial, and weapons industries (which is approximately to say, for those who have the greatest influence in determining U.S. foreign policies) must surely be counted in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Or is that it?
If it is then I would disagree. Money is like any other commodity traded in for power but power for what ends. Terrorists use funds to purchase arms etc to gain power.
Sorry I can't see the acquisition of cash as being the reason.