Had our own government not passed laws against American companies to force them to stop drilling here and crippled our own oil industry, we would not even be in the middle east for oil.
Actually, we are not really in the ME for oil, and never have been. Its a plausible sounding explanation that lends itself to leftist conspiracy theories, but we get most of our oil from three countries: The US, Mexico, and Canada.
Admittedly, if we drilled ANWAR, we could eliminate the ME from the equation entirely, but those countries would still be full of well-funded terrorists who wanted to destroy us, so that probably wouldn't be a very wise idea.