Blood and Sand

There's an old idiom about the importance of family relations that says "Blood is thicker than water," although Michel Klare argues in his documentary Blood and Oil that Oil is thicker than blood. The documentary is an overview about the policy of escalating military presence in the Middle East to protect national interests (oil).
The documentary starts off with some dirty tactics, however, and the first thing viewers are treated to is Bill O'Reilly, a man so staunchly conservative and offensive that even some Republicans are embarrassed about him. He begins by accusing a vague enemy, "the far left," of saying that the war in Iraq was a cause of United States oil interests being under threat. Because the first thing we see is an offensive, narrow minded man saying something that seems paranoid and almost McCarthy-esque, we are immediately sympathetic to Klare's ideas, as we are turned off by the other side.
As the documentary unfolds, we see that it's pretty repetitive. Klare shows us scene after scene of presidents meeting with Saudi monarchs, intimidating military displays of might, and countless shots of terrorist attack or revolution. Klare almost could be said to use fear to send his message with all the horrible images that he shows and the way he misrepresents various nations. He brings up both China and Russia, but the only images associated with them are their armies and weapons.
The worst part about this though, in my opinion, is that by the end of the documentary, one almost feels as though the entire movie wasn't about oil and the violence associated with it, but rather was Klare's political views using oil and brinkmanship as a medium. He shows each presidency since Roosevelt and their relationships to the Middle East, but it is mainly the Republican Presidents which he seems to chide. I'd consider myself liberal and believe that oil is probably a big factor in our decisions regarding the Middle East, but I wouldn't misrepresent presidents I disagreed with or misrepresent the facts for that matter to push my own political agenda.