Posted on 08/05/2007 6:03:34 AM PDT by joonbug
How will we lose the war against "radical Islam"? Well, it won't be in a tank battle. Or in the Sunni Triangle or the caves of Bora Bora. It won't be because terrorists fly three jets into the Oval Office, Buckingham Palace and the Basilica of St Peter's on the same Tuesday morning. The war will be lost incrementally because we are unable to reverse the ongoing radicalization of Muslim populations in South Asia, Indonesia, the Balkans, Western Europe and, yes, North America. And who's behind that radicalization? Who funds the mosques and Islamic centers that in the past 30 years have set up shop on just about every Main Street around the planet?
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Yet we do nothing to reduce our dependence on Saudi oil. Maybe this would be a more cost effective approach to the GWOT, choking off the funding sources of jihad?
“Yet we do nothing to reduce our dependence on Saudi oil. Maybe this would be a more cost effective approach to the GWOT, choking off the funding sources of jihad?”
You have to get rid of everyone in Washington DC (and I do mean everyone) before you will have a prayer of accomplishing this.
....Yet we do nothing to reduce our dependence on Saudi oil.....
This is not a true statement. There are massive efforts underway. The problem is that enviro dogma trumps oil. We must find non oil, non nuclear, non coal energy sources.
There are many efforts to provide new oil, new nuclear and clean coal, but they are all blocked by enviro whining.
as I said, you have to get rid of everyone in Washington DC first.
True. Every former politician is somehow on the Saudi payroll. And many current ones too...
A "Reality Show" right before our eyes and we are too Politically Correct to see the hand writing on the wall........No More Mosques and No More Public Perks for Muslims here in America.
China would probably step right in and buy it, although the price would decline.
And how does "whining" block anything?
Exploitation of domestic energy reserves is well within the war power of the United States.
ANWR should have been opened by executive order in September 2001, and we should have constructed 300-500 new nuclear power plants by now.
If, that is, we were at war.
Yes and Al Gorey’s global warming new mafia extremists don’t help.
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Yup. Sometimes I wonder if a lot of the opposition to ANWR drilling and new refineries etc. is because certain pols are getting contributions from certain people.
How about endless trivial lawsuits that produce death by a thousand cuts.
There’s going to be a funny development when the Chinese are sued for energy exploration in the Florida Straits and the Russians for exploration at the recently claimed North Pole territory.
OUTSTANDING! Hooray Mark Steyn! Thanks for posting, joonbug.
Absolutely true. We are trying to build a state of the art refinery, absolutely clean, near Tacna, Arizona. It must be one of the best sites in the world to build one. There is no local opposition.
But, the greenfascists have managed to get a local Indian tribe to sue, claiming that the refinery will impact their quality of life, even thought the refinery will be 40+ miles and a mountain range away from their reservation. They are appealing the decision, which said that they have no standing in the case, to the 9th Circuit.
It would make NO difference if we never bought another drop of Saudi oil.
China will buy it all. They need oil, and we export money to them so they can do so, every time we buy rubber poodle poo at Walmart.
If we shook the oil habit, we would no longer have any constraints against us in cleaning out that dung hole that is the middle east. Embargos would be an option, for example.
It would be real hard to buy oil from a region covered in black glass.
10 to 20 years before the radiation would even reach half life.
Because English libel law overwhelmingly favors the plaintiff.
Didn't Bill Clinton have to edit out a portion of his "My Lie" book, before its release in Great Britain, due to a libelous (by U.K. standards) comment?
The last I knew, 5% of our gasoline was now ethanol and counting. 60% of our oil may still be imported, but we are importing less. When you generalize like you have, it just makes you look uninformed.
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