If we know anything about the Middle East, it is this one truth: When America leaves a void, another power quickly fills it.
Most think of the Middle East as a sea of sand and a virtually unlimited source of oil. But the region’s natural resource with the fastest growing demand is actually coal. America is the most coal-rich country in the world. There’s ample opportunity for a strategic alliance between the U.S. and the Middle East that revolves around our coal and their oil, but that hasn’t happened. Instead, the U.S. has allowed an opening to form, and China has gladly stepped in to capitalize.
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