I would say I don't particularly care. Harsh, but there it is. Those ports and wells have no direct bearing on our national security.
They do have direct and indirect impact on our national economy, which is reason enough for me to care what happens to them. Our military also uses lots and lots of fuel, so they're important to national security in that way. Life could get pretty bad for America without Persian Gulf oil on the market. The impact on our pocketbooks, our lives, and our security of a wider Middle East war which significantly reduced oil production would far exceed the impact the occupation of Iraq is having on those things.