Shale drilling, whether for oil or gas, has made a huge contribution to world peace and security and it’s time we all recognized it and operated accordingly.

The importance of shale to world peace and security never was more in evidence than during the last two weeks. The fact that very few people know about it underscores why.

As I’ve written before, Saudi Arabia and Iran are locked in a major struggle for control and influence over the Middle East. Each represents one of the two major branches of Islam. Saudi Arabia (known as the KSA) is predominately Sunni. Iran is predominately Shi’a. Both countries have major oil reserves. KSA for decades was the world’s most important producer, and Iran has been in the top five in terms of total production and capacity.

During the last twenty years, Iran has been trying to expand its influence to create an “Iranian Corridor” from Teheran all the way to the Mediterranean. Effectively they now control much of what happens in Shi’a-majority Iraq, and they have developed Hezbollah into a Shi’a “State within a State” in heterogeneous Lebanon. Thanks to their support of Bashar Assad in Syria, the Iranians are close to linking up their surrogates and accomplishing their objective.

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