It is a hard fact of international trade that the energy resources of the Middle East are providing the lynchpin or the lifeline to the global economy especially of the Western World. It may be emphasized that oil addiction is the main reason that has prompted frequent involvements and interventions of the former and current empires and super powers including France, Britain, the U.S.A. and the former Soviet Union from the beginning of the 20th century. The significant players driving the American foreign policy in the Middle East since then have been the multi national oil corporations, Israel, and defense industrial complex. American's unquestioned and uncalled for involvement in the Middle East, supporting Israel's occupation of Palestinian and Arab land has produced an endless string of crises, heavily militarized the region, helped change the United States from an object of admiration to an object of hostility in the region, and provoking terrorist acts that have killed and injured thousands of innocent from both sides. In short oil-addiction has turned Into blood-addiction and the whole region is subjected to unprecedented War & Violence. The main contention of this paper is that so long as the present situation is allowed to persist, robbers of one kind or another would keep coming to this region and would keep its cities and street drenched in blood. There are two possibilities that may bring this tragic situation to an early end. One such possibility is that these Western powers are allowed to pump-out the oil until the oil fields are virtually dried-out. The other possibility lies in building up the defense potentials of the Middle Eastern Countries especially by evolving a joint-defense amongst the oil-rich Muslim countries. One may hope that the current guerilla war would prove a preamble to the same eventuality. It may be observed that the youth of this region is particulariy anxious to change the monarchical system and introduce nationalist kind of govemments that are capable of preserving and protecting their natural resources and spend them for the well-being of their own people. It may be underiined that Western atrocities committed under the game of "War on terror" are directed against the emergence of such nationalist trends in the Muslim World.
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