Who has sovereignty of the Spratly Islands? Are they inhabited? Will there be another war over oil?
912220
There never was a war over oil.  The Spratly Islands are uninhabited, but they are claimed by China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and the Phillipines.
435914
There is a plan to tap the oil reserves in Alaska.  But I would ask you this... Do we really need more oil?  Why not find alternative energy sources?  What happens when all the oil runs out? (And it will).  Why do we have to ruin the pristine environment in Alaska with oil drilling and creating a pipeline that will ruin the habitat of many animals?\n\nBush is unfortunately a slave to big business and is not interested in "green" energy and moving the country away from oil, which is sad because we are ruining the earth's environment.  Whatever the Bush Administration says there is global warming and CO2 emissions, like those from cars, are in fact heating up the planet.  Hope you all have working bicycles because in the future with no oil that's what we will all be riding!
413964
No, there isn't.  The person pulling up Wikipedia should have looked at the last line of the first paragraph.\n\n"It is not an independent state."
465317
I wouldn't count on anything that isn't related to Iraqi having anything done with it by the US.  On the other hand...does Burma have oil?  If the answer is yes, then it is a possibility!
607951
the oil is just a cover up , as well as the deomocracy for Iraq, its a lie, if you read the Bible there will be a battle called the "battel of armagedon", and it will take place in the cradle of life (thats where iraq is) so its gonna be awhile and it will be a battle between great nations, who knows! maybe they might be fighting for the oil!
639151
American Sovereignty over what??
1034596
Hard to imagine mountainous, landlocked country becoming any kind of superpower.  All of the world's superpowers, past and present have had access to the sea.\n\nOh, duh.....this is a World Cup related question.  So what.
776705
Probably war.  I think Texas is the only state that put into its terms of statehood that it has the right to secede.
207555
I don't believe there are any.  There are about a dozen islands though.
1124544
Those territories were parts of other sovereign countries prior to that war.  It wasn't empty space on the far side of Neptune.
427897
Denmark. They control Greenland don't they.
435768
What exactly do you mean by involved?\nA country that has never been an active combatant (sent troops into battle) in a war?\nOr a country that has never been invaded during wartime?\nThat would be a pretty short list.\n\nBecause even in the South Pacific, the islands were occupied by Japanese and US forces during WW II.
1134938
Yes, though the definition of "we" is important here.  Oil, like any other resource, does not rightfully belong to a government.  Seeing how horrifically government wastes everything else, it's obvious that bureaucrats are the last people who ought to be in charge of a precious commodity.\nThe hysteria over "Big Oil" is a joke, albeit a dangerous one.  Get the government the feck out of businesses' business, and then we can talk realistically about energy options.\nhttp://www.perc.org/publications/articles/Crichtonspeech.php
591016
Most of those territories have about the same degree of self government that Hawaii has.  I'm sure some will want more, some will want less.  Let's hear what they say - but I think it's unlikely that residents of the Pitcairn Islands are desperate for the right to set up a navy, or the Turks & Caicos islands want to set up their own embassies abroad and announce to the UN their position on Kurdish rights.
627255
HELL NO!  America is tending to interfere in other countrys matters far too much. They should realise by now that the second world war ended in 1945 with the unification of italy. The two super powers were usa and Russia. Russia got over it that times change but its just that usa is still stuck on the whole "super power of the world" thing. What happens in iraq and the middle east is their concern and they will sort it out their way usa has no right to interfere. usa has oil reserves that it can use but it wants to use the oil in the middle east that belongs to them but then kinda mysteriously got under iraq. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
1008542
No, Antarctica is not  a country like any other. It has not got its own indigenous population. People found there are scientists working on research projects and ship crew for example.It is reported that 26 nations operate there through their various national antarctic programs
624992
let's see, every time a new frontier of land was disovered, some poor race of people faced near extinction. \nThe Europeans have already slaughtered the Native Americans, enslaved the Africans, and oppressed the East Indians, and that was only for land. God forbid we find someplace with lots of oil because that'd be WWIII right there.