Fifty years after the Yom Kippur War

[LinuxGal]

And the fact that the rest of the Middle East has oil, a major energy source that the American establishment has no interest in weaning itself off of even as its supply is starting to dwindle, has nothing to do with it?

Of course it does. Actually, the wealth of the region is keeping the U.S army finding justifications to remain in it.
If it wasn't for oil, the U.S wouldn't bother; or like Afghanistan it will withdraw after a mere generation or two since the invasion.

You must not know that the US is the world's biggest producer of oil, and what oil we do get from the Middle East we get by, you know, actually paying for it with money, not hijacking it with aircraft carriers.