In 1991 the US headed a coalition of nations in a war called Desert Storm which enjoyed worldwide support. It was touted as a human rights issue: bad old Saddam Hussein invaded tiny Kuwait because he coveted their oil. I personally supported it because if Saddam had obtained Kuwait's oil he did not intend to stop there. He planned to go ahead and conquer the entire middle east. Had he been successful he would have been able to blackmail those countries who depend on mid-east oil and we would have found ourselves bowing to the east three times a day. I have since learned that there may be more oil in Alaska than in the middle-east. The oil companies are not drilling for this oil because of environmental concerns (and pigs can fly). The oil companies do not need to drill for this oil because they already have a very sweet deal in the middle east. The real reason for Desert Storm was that Saddam Hussein could not be allowed to interfere with the business interests of the international bankers.

The Unseen Hand (page 74) goes on to tell how the oil companies have consistently made a profit of about six hundred percent, naming Anglo-Iranian, Socony-Vacuum, Royal Dutch Shell, Gulf, Esso, Texaco and Calso. This means that the oil companies are in fact financing terrorism. Terrorists are an unseen enemy, you never know where they will strike next, and everyone is at risk of terrorist attack. BUT what if terrorism were a ploy to get people to willingly surrender their rights in favor of security? There was a terrorist incident in Oklahoma City in April 1995. The media immediately began to do polls and promote giving up some of our rights for increased security. We are also aware of the increased security, with the decrease in civil rights, that has occurred as a result of 9/11. It is in someone's interests that terrorist attacks occur. If the oil companies decided to end terrorism they could simply shut down middle-east operations and develop the oil fields found in other places, such as Alaska.

But no, we get much of our oil from the middle east, and it was God himself who put it there, in the lands surrounding Israel.  The same Israel that scripture states will be a cup of trembling and a burdensome stone to all people at the time of the end (Zech. 12:2-3).  The focus is on the middle east.