A poet once wrote of small men who measured their lives in “coffee spoons.” But, all of us as Americans living in the modern era, can just as easily measure ours by the number of oil wars we have lived through.
As a young guy just starting out in the world of foreign policy, I remember hosting a conference in Caracas, Venezuela, when a buzz went through the room. “They’ve started bombing!” people said to one another and an evening event broke up so everyone could head to the rooms to watch the bombing of Baghdad on CNN. The images back in January 1991 were strikingly similar to those broadcast on Saturday as the U.S. conducted bombing raids, this time on Caracas of all places.
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