Hunt for Middle East: Blood & Oil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbsMHq681Fk Hunt for Middle East: Blood & Oil (video 1/6)

The link above is a video 1 of 6 about the Middle East and the hunt for its oil from foreign powers, mostly the United States. I think it is interesting that still til this day there is a battle for oil from the Middle East. I could not help but link this video with an incident that had occured in the book All the Shah's Men. Iran allowed Britain to have complete access to their oil. But with the new Prime Minister of Iran, he completely cut this off causing Britain and their ally, the United States, to fight to get what is "theirs". I think it is insane that this battle is still going on until today and probably into the future. Oil is a huge part of society and its economic standards. However, due to the Middle East's issues within, these external issues have caused more issues that have set back the Middle East in creating a unified nation of Arab states.