One particularly oil rich region is Khuzestan, an Arab area of Iran. Iran's oil is mostly in the western provinces along the Persian / Arabian Gulf. The US merely wants to control the oil and is not interested in occupying Mecca and Medina. The other without holy cities but with oil fields. Into at least two countries - one with the holy cities but without oil, Some neo-conservatives have floated the idea of partioning Saudi Arabia The two holy cities of Mecca and Medina are in the west, along the Red Saudi oil fields are in the east, along the Persian Gulf. Saudi Arabia has a similar confluence of ethnicity with petroleum geography. This would allow the US to focus its occupation and manipulation on the parts of Iraq that have oil, and the parts without oil could be ignored. Most of Iraq's oil would be concentrated in the Shiite region, with lesser amounts in the Kurdish part, and very little would remain for the Sunnis. The supposed "failure" of the Bush Cheney invasion of Iraq allows for a new administration to supposedly fix the problems of their civil war by splitting Iraq into three new states - a Kurdish enclave in the north, a Shiite Arab state in the south, and a Sunni region in the center. This would remove control over the oil from governments based in Baghdad, Tehran and Riyadh, allowing new arrangements of control to be established. Dividing up Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia would allow the consolidation of most of the region's oil into a new country (which presumably would be allied to the United States). However, if you combine maps of the "new Middle East" sought by these armchair warriors with maps of the oil fields, a more sinister motive becomes obvious. The ostensible reason given for this arrogance is to separate feuding ethnic and religious groups from each other. Some of the neo-cons have publicly proclaimed that their goal for the War on Iraq (and eventually, its neighbors) is to redraw the borders of the Middle East. If you add up the number of bodies in the wars between 1945 and 9/11, the casualties are comparable to World War II. The neo-cons call the current Middle East conflict "World War IV," since they consider the many wars under the umbrella of the Cold War to have been World War III. But these configurations still allow for nationalist control over tremendous oil resources - which the US empire still resents. The Arab world is roughly divided into countries with large populations and little oil, and countries with little populations and large amounts of oil (an oversimplification, but the general point is valid). These lines separate the bulk of the Arab peoples from the bulk of the oil wealth, a quasi-Apartheid situation deeply resented by millions of poor Arabs. The national borders of the Middle East countries were mostly drawn by British and French imperialist bureaucrats around 1920, not by citizens of these nations. If the bulk of the remaining oil was in places that were predominantly Buddhist or Hindu, the US would be waging a war on Buddhism or Hinduism. The US empire is playing a "Good cop / bad cop" strategy where the neo-cons wrecked Iraq but the neo-liberals are in agreement that Iraq should be partitioned (which would allow the US greater control over the oil). Iranian oil is mostly in Arab minority areaĪrabian oil is mostly in Shia minority areaĪ new map for Peak Oil Wars Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, former Soviet Georgia, Africa and others.Iraqi Oil: America's new Strategic Petroleum Reserve.the Biden Cheney partition plan for Iraq.Note: the online version of this article no longer has a link to these maps "Ex-Fox News analyst: Trump is a danger to the US" Note that their new "Arab Shia State" would contain much of the oil, separating governments in Riyadh, Baghdad and Tehran from what is currently the main source of their national wealth.Ģ018: Lt. Most of the existing borders were imposed by Britain and France after World War I - and conveniently (for the US and Europe) divide most of the Arabs from most of the oil. It shows the method to the madness - creating ethnic tension and civil war in order to redraw the boundaries. In June 2006, Armed Forces Journal published this map (below) from Ralph Peters, a prominent war strategist.
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