As a kid grown up, i lived through something that, if you look in your history books now, is a known historical event with long term, huge ramifications. At the time, we just called it the oil crisis when i was a kid in 19 73. Long story short, a cartel of oil producing nations wanted to get the united states and friends to change their foreign policy priorities as they related to israel. The attitude that the us Government had was completely understandable and predictable. No great power is going to let anybody dictate what their foreign policy priority should be.