Serious Petroleum

The recent capture of the Sirius Star raises an interesting argument as to the world’s priorities. It doesn’t make sense. The United States would go to war and spend billions of dollars a month on a country far across the Atlantic ocean, yet when the direct hijacking of the prized commodity occurs the response is as failed as FEMA’s to hurricane Katrina. The question exists what is at stake. With the price of oil rising to above $150.00 a barrel in the last year you would think reacquiring ownership of 100 million dollars worth of oil would be a priority for someone. Evidently it is not, because no one has recommended a viable solution. The term “international waters” is at play, and that seems to scare someone. If I were a multi-billion dollar oil company, I would take some of the money I am siphoning into the creating of beachfront property and equip a navy. Is this all it takes, a few rag tag Somali fisherman to show the acute vulnerabilities of the world’s superpowers? Government officials have been saying all along the United States is overtaxed in terms of military personnel. We have too many forces deployed to cover our own asses in America. As we struggle to maintain power in a war in which we started that is gaining naught, $100 million dollars worth of oil is sitting in Somalia. Seems our troops are in the wrong place, again.