Written on October 16th, 2014 in the San Antonio Express, columnist Thomas Friedman discusses Oil and the looming question of whether or not an oil war is about to emerge; pairing up the US and Saudi Arabia against Russia and Iran. He seems to dance around the topic listing a plethora of information but not ever getting around to his personal opinion. Although one might speculate that he is simply objective in regards to this matter. He claims that the Americans and Saudis are attempting to do to Putin and Khamenei what they did to the last leaders of the Soviet Union which is "pump them to death," literally. To drive them into bankruptcy by lowering oil prices so immensely that there would be no return. After carefully examining the document and comparing this piece to some of Friedman's other writings I have come to the conclusion that he is in support of resolving this matter and that he does not desire there to be any further escalations, eventually leading to war. I believe that in this article his audience is the world; anyone and everyone who has interests on the matter. And although he does not utilize any hard evidence to make personal claims he still is considered one the of best columnists in the US, and for a good reason. He leaves you wondering, contemplating whether or not there is a resolution to this matter. Whether or not war will break out between these nations. Will it?