Richard Lugar actually said...

Isn't the urgency of this such that a more dramatic push is really in the national interest?

we're in two shooting wars in the Middle East, in large measure, because of our dependence on imported petroleum

For the better part of 50 or 60 years, our foreign policy had been deeply entwined with oil, in one form or another.

Another military coup, another military takeover, another military intervention would be very much against the interests of the United State...