A history of U.S. oil wars is a work-in-progress which began when President  Wilson landed U.S. troops at Tampico. Future historians may very well have  to fill in the blanks. The history of U.S. involvement in Persia (now Iran) and  Mesopotamia (now Iraq) centered around the quest for oil and control of it as  a vitally-needed natural resource. With this in mind, the reader may well  come to the conclusion that news from U.S. (and British) sources has to be  taken with a large grain of salt.  

 

Oil diplomacy is governed by commercial and eventually, military  considerations. Thus every U.S. President since Woodrow Wilson has  formulated U.S. foreign policy to take care of oil interests. President  McKinley said "isolation is no longer possible," and President Wilson echoed  that sentiment when he said: "We are participants whether we would or not in  the life of the world. The interests of all nations are ours also. We are partners  with the rest."  

 

Therefore this book affects or should affect every American, because modern  international power is economic, just as all wars are economic in origin.  Remember this the next time your sons and daughters are called to fight for  the country. If Iraq did not contain huge oil resources, would the U.S. be  bogged down in that country today  Fear of domestic shortages of oil seems  to be the driving force at play. American strife over foreign resources has  become the major factor in international affairs. These are issues examined in  this book which should be read by every American interested in the future of  their country.

 

The American imperiali** is a fatal product of economic evolution. It is useless trying to persuade our northern neighbor not to be imperialistic, they cannot help being so, no matter how excellent their intentions...