Reagan: We’re In The Gulf For Oil

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Times Which Were Perhaps More Honest

Reagan @UN, 1987: "For 40 years the United States has made it clear, its vital interest in the security of the Persian Gulf and the countries that border it. The oil reserves there are of strategic importance to the economies of the free world. We're committed to maintaining the free flow of this oil and to preventing the domination of the region by any hostile power. ... When the tension diminishes, so will our presence."

Reagan at the United Nations, 1987:
“For 40 years the United States has made it clear, its vital interest in the security of the Persian Gulf and the countries that border it. The oil reserves there are of strategic importance to the economies of the free world. We’re committed to maintaining the free flow of this oil and to preventing the domination of the region by any hostile power. … When the tension diminishes, so will our presence.”
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1987/092187b.htm

Reminded of this while making my U.N.Speak Video Remix…