Since before 9/11, the American government has been meddling in mid-east affairs. U.S. covert and overt operations have helped to shape the volatile region over the years paving the way for imperial American oversight. The question remains however, why?

Let’s just get that which is obvious out of the way- oil. The west has in part occupied the middle east so as to capitalize upon the immense reserves of oil found therein. Some have speculated that the Earth is running out of oil. If such is indeed the case, it is clear as to why major world powers would want a chunk of the middle east to claim their own.

Oil aside, there are a few other solid reasons as to why we’re butchering and blowing things up overseas. The next most obvious of answers that one could give for a U.S. presence in the middle east would be that of Israel.

The year is 2012. The Presidential elections are in full swing. Almost every question asked of candidates concerning foreign policy is over how best to assist Israel both monetarily and militarily- as if to imply that no other nation on Earth exists nor is in need of U.S. attention. Candidate Ron Paul has taken much heat over his belief that all foreign aid- including aid to Israel- should be cut off entirely.

Ever since large swaths of the Jewish community migrated to the middle east after the reportedly tragic events surrounding the Nazi holocaust, the U.S. has been offering all kinds of goodies to the nation of Israel at the tax payer’s expense. In a world where almost every other facet implies a ‘dog-eat-dog’, ‘survival of the fittest’ attitude, the U.S. is just incapable of allowing Israel to attempt to make it on its own just as all other nations have struggled to do so for themselves.

Israel’s wars have become our wars- and this reason alone is perhaps one of the largest of excuses for the U.S. to be engaged in foreign affairs abroad.

There is one last prominent reason as to why the American empire has spread in to the areas that are considered by many to be the ‘cradle of civilization’. This is a reason not too often spoken of but is just as important as what has been mentioned above. The corporate, ‘new world order’ architecture which drives the industrial world is virtually absent in most parts of the middle east.

The global elite hate Islamic culture because in its own stringent way, it doesn’t allow for the ‘modernization’ of culture which so defines much of the western world. By ‘modernization’ I don’t mean advances in science, mathematics, and technology- I’m talking about the sprouting up of mega corporations such as Walmart, Starbucks, and McDonalds and the subsequent shackling of the population via taxation, debt, and servitude to an all-encompassing corporate state.

As wars continue to rage on in the middle east, remember the reasons as to why we’re over there as outlined in this article. When a person begins to see the world through a more proper lens, everything ultimately begins to make sense.

The 21st century will no doubt be characterized as the century of intense warfare all in the name of the aforementioned pursuits. If it is true that the world is running out of oil, expect both the bloodshed and the size of the weaponry involved in these wars to grow exponentially.