Yes, starting a shooting war in the Middle East will likely raise the price of oil from regional sources, which has typically been bad for the party in power, but that trade-off might seem worth it to a president who has just opened up a previously closed oil market in the Americas, and is looking for a way to encourage oil companies to invest in production there, where he's better positioned to take a slice of the profits.
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