Obama, Clinton should get real about oil

…”These are the ways we will answer the challenge that arrived on our shores that September morning more than five years ago,” Obama said. “A 21st century military to stay on the offense, from Djibouti to Kandahar. Global efforts to keep the world

That was declaration by then-president Jimmy Carter in 1980: “Any attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region would be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States….[that would] be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.”

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