To the editor:

Robert Dreyfuss, writing in the March edition of Mother Jones magazine, describes the United States’ systematic acquisition of military bases across the Middle East. Current policy-makers see this area as strategic for American world domination. The United States imports oil mostly form Nigeria, Venezuela and Mexico. Middle Eastern oil is the fuel, the energy depot for Japan, China and Europe. Control of that oil means control of those economies when they compete with the United States.

Dreyfuss quotes Robert Ebel, director of the energy program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, from his center-produced report, “Oil is high profile stuff … Oil fuels military power, national treasuries, and international politics. It is no longer a commodity to be bought and sold within the confines of traditional energy supply and demand balances. Rather it has been transformed into a determinant … of national security, and of international power.”

One-third of world’s oil reserves are in Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Dreyfuss further quotes Ebel, “If something happens in Saudi Arabia, if the ruling family is ousted, if they decide to shut off the oil supply, we have to go in.”

These ideas started with Henry Kissinger in 1975. Kissinger, along with James Schlesinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski are all advisers to the CSIS.

Won’t that be a jolly time when the United States takes control of the Islamic holy land? No wonder our president warned us of war lasting a generation.

Mark Larson,

Lawrence