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FACTORS CAUSING THE MIDDLE EAST TO BE

IMPORTANT TO THE UNITED STATES, AND CURRENT AMERICAN INTERESTS AND OBJECTIVES

Three factors combine to cause the Middle East to be important to the United States. These same three factors dictate current American interests and objectives in the area. These three factors are (1) energy supplies, (2) support for the state of Israel, and (3) terrorism.

Overall, the United States produces energy in an amount equivalent to 83.7 percent of its total energy consumption (Energy Information Administration, 1990). Aggregate measures,

however, do not reflect the mismatch between the country's energy production mix, and the energy consumption mix required to support its economic and military needs. As a result of the mismatch between the energy production mix and the energy consumption mix in the United States, the country's net energy imports are far greater than the aggregate data in

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ip between the United States and Israel changed 7significantly. The "militaryindustrial complexes of the two countries have been effectively merged, and the bases have beenlaid for Israel's becoming the third most advanced, if not the third most powerful, military power on earth" (Green, 1988, p. 225). Considering the commitments of American presidents to Israel, together with the "pervasive . . . influence of Israel in Congress . . ., it is difficult to imagine circumstances in which a concerted military attack on Israel would not be construed as an attack upon the United States" (Green, 1988, p. 225). The Bush Administration has publicly challenged Israel over that country's treatment of its Arab population. This challenge has been dictated by American public sentiment toward Israeli repression. The Bush challenge has been all words, however, and Israel continues to be treated as America's 51st state by the Administration. Terrorism Terror is a specific belief that some evil event or action is going to occur. In the distant past, terror was associated with visitations from some allpowerful god, who controlled life and death in an almost indiscriminate manner. As mankind became more sophisticated, some individual
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