Sociology and the Middle East Oil Problem

I'm taking two classes, and having an interesting experience in both. One of them I've already posted on, the abnormal psychology class. Today I'm posting about my other class, the sociology (uh-oh) class. There have been red flags (as you can imagine) all over the stuff that I'm reading in the textbook, although it is at the same time fascinating.
This week, one of the topics involves  U.S. policies regarding the Middle East.

Here is what I posted there on the topic, with a couple of interesting links:

I found a couple of interesting articles in regard to our foreign oil consumption and how it effects us as well as the Middle East and our relationships. One is the Jewish Virtual Library:

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/usoil.html

They give us the perspective of how our U.S. policies with the Arab nations effect Israel and our U.S. relationship with Israel. They also give some information on other countries as sources for U.S. oil imports.
There is another article that I found that has multinational contributors to this foundation, which I believe to be affiliated with the U.N. somehow (I cannot confirm it from their website, it just has that kind of "feel" to it):

http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/us_oil_policy_in_the_middle_east

I am not a big fan of the U.N. but I understand that is the way we are headed, and the U.S. will lose it's sovereign status. It already has, actually, and the U.S. Constitution has not been the solid basis of our governing policies for, well, since before the Bushes, however, we still pretend that it is in place, just as we pretend alot of things that we'd rather not know the real truth about. I'm a Christian, so I'm observing this more like watching a movie from an outsider's perspective on this whole thing. Sometimes some of the things I see happening in this world scares me, but I don't put my whole needs and desires to depend on the government, or governments, of this world.

I understand the arguments pro and con for going for alternative fuels, and the wars that have been fought in the Middle East, and having it said that it is all about establishing democracy there. I don't believe the arguments, and I don't support the actions. I'm just observing them, and praying for Jesus to come quickly to set it straight, because there really isn't any other way that is more than a band aid solution with bad consequences any way we turn.