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ME Dependence = Terrorism
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ME Dependence = TerrorismFurther dependence aids Middle Eastern terrorist organizations Luft 08 (Gal, executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS), “Dependence on Middle East Energy and its Impact on Global Security”, 6-2-08, http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=537) OPGrowing dependence on the Middle East means further enrichment of the corrupt and dictatorial regimes in the Persian Gulf and continued access of terrorist groups to a viable financial network which allows them to remain a lethal threat to the West. It would also necessitate increased Western military presence in the region to ensure access to oil. But such presence would only strengthen the xenophobic and anti-Western sentiment among the jihadists and increase their motivation to fight the infidels. Furthermore, continuous infusion of money to radical Islamic educational institutions creates a new generation of radicalized youth, making reconciliation between the West and the Muslim world more difficult to achieve. This vicious cycle can only be broken through massive political reforms that the oil regimes currently seem to resist. Middle East terrorist organizations funded by US oil consumers Reynolds 10 (Lewis, energy consultant and author of “America the Prisoner: The Implications of Foreign Oil Addiction and a Realistic Plan to End It”, “Seven Dangerous Side Effects of the U.S. Dependency on Foreign Oil”, 8-8-10, http://peakoil.com/production/seven-dangerous-side-effects-of-the-u-s-dependency-on-foreign-oil/) OPThe consequence is that, to a large extent, governments in the Middle East are funded by American consumers. The same money you use to fill your gas tank is ultimately funding things like terrorist groups and the Iranian nuclear program, but, perhaps more importantly, it is being used to buy assets in the United States. At the end of 2008, foreigners owned $3.5 trillion more in assets in the U.S. than Americans owned abroad, and the bulk of that difference can be explained by the oil trade deficit. The petroleum trade deficit is a wealth transfer. In 2008 alone, Americans purchased $453 billion of foreign oil (which accounted for more than 65 percent of the total trade deficit). Oil dependency makes us vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Reynolds 10 (Lewis, energy consultant and author of “America the Prisoner: The Implications of Foreign Oil Addiction and a Realistic Plan to End It”, “Seven Dangerous Side Effects of the U.S. Dependency on Foreign Oil”, 8-8-10, http://peakoil.com/production/seven-dangerous-side-effects-of-the-u-s-dependency-on-foreign-oil/) OPIt makes us vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Terrorism is a reality of the modern world. Terrorism is not the product of Islam; rather it is the manifestation of a particular political agenda. All terrorist groups in the Middle East share a hatred for Israel, but seldom have major attacks impacting the United States had much to do with our support of Israel. Instead, most of these groups’ grievances relate to the effects of oil policies. SBSP solves ME Oil dependenceUS has strong dependence on Middle East for oil-SBSP is a viable alternative Green Living 9 (“Steps to Reduce Oil Dependency”, http://www.greenlivingearth.net/tag/reduce-oil-dependency/) OPBefore discussing the various steps and measures that can be taken to reduce oil dependency, we need to know what oil dependence is. It is estimated that the United States uses 20 million barrels of oil a day. Of this, nearly 55 percent is imported. More than $20 billion is spent on importing oil from the Middle East every year. This makes the United States rely heavily on the Middle East for oil resources. The cause of oil dependence has led to an alarming increase in the demand for fuel supplies. This is mainly due to the use of fuel-inefficient vehicles, cars, and trucks. The growing demand for oil in the developing nations also adds to this problem. Immediate measures must be taken to reduce oil dependency to solve this problem. The use of alternative energy sources is one solution to reduce oil dependence. Of the many, biofuel and space-based solar power are being regarded as highly viable alternative energy sources. SBSP can prevent Middle East dependence Morring 7 (Frank Jr., senior editor at Aviation Week, “NSSO Backs Space Solar Power”, 10-11-07, http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=space&id=news/solar101107. xml) OPCollecting solar power in space and beaming it back to Earth is a relatively near-term possibility that could solve strategic and tactical security problems for the U.S. and its deployed forces, the Pentagon's National Security Space Office (NSSO) says in a report issued Oct. 10. As a clean source of energy that would be independent of foreign supplies in the strife-torn Middle East and elsewhere, space solar power (SSP) could ease America's longstanding strategic energy vulnerability, according to the "interim assessment" released at a press conference and on the Web site spacesolarpower.wordpress.com. ***Resource Wars***Oil Dependence Resource WarsResource wars and heg decline inevitable in the squo- oil production peak and other fossil fuels’ peak approachingHeinberg ’05 (Richard Heinberg, American journalist and educator who has written extensively on ecological issues, including oil depletion. He is the author of at least ten books. “The Party’s Over - Oil, War, and the fate of Industrial societies”. June 1, 2005) AP Regional rivalries and long-term strategy: Even without competition for energy resources, the world is full of conflict and animosity, For the most part, it is in the United States* interest to prevent open confrontation between regional rivals, such as India and Pakistan, Israel and Syria, and North and South Korea. However, resource competition will only worsen existing enmities. As the petroleum production peak approaches, the US will likely make efforts to take more direct control of energy resources in Saudi Arabia, Iran, the Caspian Sea, Africa and South America — efforts that may incite other nations to form alliances to curb US ambitions. Within only a few years, OPEC countries will have control over virtually all of the exportable surplus oil in the world (with the exception of Russia's petroleum, the production of which may reach a second peak in 2010, following an initial peak that precipitated the collapse of the USSR). The US — whose global hegemony has seemed so complete for the past dozen years — will suffer an increasing decline in global influence, which no amount of saber rattling or bombing of "terrorist" countries will be able to reverse. Awash in debt, dependent on imports, mired in corruption, its military increasingly overextended, the US is well into its imperial twilight years. Meanwhile, whichever nations seek to keep their resources out of the global market will be demonized. This has already occurred in the cases of Iran, Iraq, and Libya — which sought to retain too large a share of their resource profits to benefit their own regimes and hence attained pariah status in the eyes of the US government. Essentially they were seeking to do something similar to what the American colonists did in throwing off British rule over two centuries earlier. Like the American colonists, they wanted to control their own natural resources and the profits accruing from them. Many readers will object to such an analogy between American colonial patriots and modern-day Iibyan or Iraqi leaders on the grounds that the latter are, or were, autocrats guilty of human-rights abuses that justified their condemnation by the international community. But we must recall that America's founders were themselves engaged in slavery and genocide and that many US client states — including Turkey, Israel, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia — have also been guilty of serious abuses.51 In the future, secure access to resources will depend not only on the direct control of oil fields and pipelines but also on successful competition with other bidders for available supplies. Eventually, the US will need to curtail European and Japanese access to resources wherever possible. Again, every effort will be made to avoid direct confrontation because in open conflict all sides will lose. Even the closest trading partners of the US — Canada and Mexico, which are currently major energy-resource suppliers — will become competitors for their own resources when depletion reaches a point where those nations find it hard to maintain exports to their energy-hungry neighbor and still provide for the needs of their own people. Civil wars will be likely to erupt in the less-industrialized nations that have abundant, valuable, and accessible resources, such as oil, natural gas, and diamonds, rather than in those that are resource-poor. This conclusion is based on a correlation study by Indra de Soysaof the University of Bonn of the value of natural resources in 139 countries and the frequency of civil wars since 1990." The finding runs counter to the long-held assumption that internecine warfare is most likely to occur in resource-poor countries. Often rival groups within nonindustrial countries use wealth from the sale of resources — or from leases to foreign corporations to exploit resources — in order to finance armed struggles. Pity the nations with resources remaining. The least industrialized of the world's nations will face extraordinary challenges in the decades ahead, hut may also enjoy certain advantages. Industrialized nations will seek to choke off the flow of energy supplies to resource-poor economies, most likely by yanking their debt chains and enforcing still more structural-adjustment policies. However, less-industrialized nations are able to squeeze much more productivity out of energy resources than are the energy-saturated economies of the industrialized nations. Less-industrialized nations are therefore potentially able to bid prices higher, or to absorb higher energy costs much faster, than the industrialized nations. 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