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I don't know who the "we" is in this sentence, but if you mean the US, that's not going to happen. Even outside of oil, US bases down there have a strategic imp

• joesmo 11y ago
  The 'we' refers to the international community of which the US is the biggest--but not the only--influencer. I don't see what US bases have to do with the US condemning the atrocities in the middle east, especially in a post-oil world. I think the US will want to keep its bases there and probably will, but there won't any strong incentives to keep them there like we have now. There certainly won't be any incentives to trade with countries in the middle east like Saudi Arabia because they have absolutely nothing to trade other than oil. In that situation, I'm quite sure we'll finally call them out (hypocritically, of course) on their human rights abuses and their essential enslavement of women.