Klare's "New" Book

In Klare's new book, "Blood for Oil", he takes a post 9/11 stance on his original thoughts brought about in his book, "Resource Wars". Oddly enough, the ideas that "Blood for Oil" present are very much the same as its pre-9/11 counterpart. In "Resource Wars", Klare discusses numerous examples of resources, wars, conflicts, and reasons why resources (such as oil) will play key roles in our future. Now, after 9/11, he responds with what I feel is an "I told you so" attitude, or maybe that is just how I perceive it. He is now able to go in depth into the history and recent events in accordance with the attacks on 9/11 and our retaliation against in relationship to our need for oil. I found the discussion of the history the U.S. has with oil dependence. He brought up a key factor that I believe we discussed in class dealing with the Saudi royal family. It's interesting to see the perspective of how the dependence on oil came about, starting with our decline in oil resources and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's meeting and agreement with the Saudi royal family, which has been upheld through every Presidency since. Which brings us to this Presidency, in which Dick Cheney has historic ties to Saudi Arabia. In general, Klare's main focus in this book and the things that struck him the most werer the degree of dependence of our society on cheap, abundant oil, as well as how priveledged we were with a very large oil supply, and until that oil supply started to deplete, we weren't concerned. What really strikes me about this, is that it becomes very apparent that we are unable to function properly when our economy is threatened. Instead of thinking in terms of alternatives, we think in terms of attacking, and until we can get past this idea, and I feel this is what Klare is saying, war's and conflicts will be prevelant for the rest of our lives...