Final Draft of Critique Essay #2
In “National Security Consequences of U.S Oil Dependence,” the Independent Task Force, whose
reports recommend ways to fix major foreign policy problems that the United States’ government faces,
discusses the lack of attention towards energy problems that are undercutting U.S foreign policy and
national security. This article identifies security and economic reasons why petroleum based imports are
a problem for the United States and why it should be fixed. Although the Independent Task Force
provides events that contain evidence of the issues pertaining to the purchasing of oil imports, the
article lacks details, and has the logical fallacies of oversimplification and slippery slope.
Though there is an abundance of events in the article to give evidence for the reader, there are
few details as to how oil dependence is destroying the U.S foreign policy and to what extent oil imports
affect the United States’ national security. This article explains that through the purchase of oil from
