America is getting over its love affair with oil and is fracking like crazy, reports suggest that it is well on the way to becoming self sufficient for it's energy needs and within 10 years could be a net exporter. The rest of the world can squabble over what's left of the Middle East.
Its a bad state of affairs, the West has been picking and choosing which conflicts to join for years. We did next to nothing in Lebanon, Egypt ,Tunisia and Bahrain. Standing off in the Med and firing a few cruise missiles off to slap Assad on the wrist is just going to upset the Russians and...