It has always been hard to accept the argument that the series of wars in the Middle East since 2001 have been about oil. Afghanistan is not an oil state and most of the oil which will be produced from Iraq will end up in China and the Far East rather than in the United States or Europe. On the other hand what is happening now in Syria and Northern Iraq shows that oil and power are inseparably linked.
我們一直很難接受這樣一種觀點，即中東自2001年以來發生的一系列戰爭都與石油相關。阿富汗並非產油國，而伊拉克未來開採的大部分石油將運往中國以及遠東地區，而非美國或歐洲。另一方面，敘利亞與伊拉克北部如今的形勢表明，石油與實力之間有著密不可分的聯繫。
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