The Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia-the global hotbed of Islam and oil
the Mecca of both Islam and anything-everything that uses oil.
THE export
a view of a Saudi oil field, where roughly 10% of our petroleum comes from.
the chart of Jan-June 2011
as one can clearly see, behind Canada lies Mexico and Saudi Arabia, which has since overtaken Mexico's spot for second place.
the blacklist-the REAL problem
these are eighteen of the hundreds of SAUDI terrorists who are radical Muslims and are on the Most Wanted List of the USA and the USA-friendly Saudi Monarchy.
secondary problem feeding real problem
the US imported approximately 457,710,000 barrels of oil from Saudi Arabia in 2011. the total dollar amount being a whopping ~ $46 billion from our pocket to theirs.
replace "Yemen" with "Saudi Arabia". they ARE neighbors, after all.
while the Monarchy does not directly do this, the schools they build do. the teachers they hire do. the non-separation of church and state does. all this is done with the aid of OUR MONEY.
what else is there? will it ever change?
nothing. no. the land in Saudi Arabia aside from the fertile pockets is uninhabitable for the large part. sand and more sand makes agriculture next to impossible. we will see what comes in the future.