[nathanbedford]

Providence has dealt us a card which Obama refuses to play. In fact he's betting against his own hand. The reduced petroleum prices have utterly devastated the Russian and the Venezuelan economies and presumably dramatically restricted the mischief they can do. If, as this article reports, the Russians cannot even fund new uniforms, their international ambitions must be reduced.

Obama has done everything he can to eventually restore high petroleum prices to the benefit of the Russians, the Venezuelans, and the Gulf states which indirectly fund terrorists. He has done this with an utterly unrealistic policy to move America away from the internal combustion engine to windmills. One cannot resist the temptation to play with the words: this is quixotic.

What should he be doing instead? He should be encouraging domestic and offshore drilling wherever economically feasible in this environment. He should be advancing the production of atomic energy by streamlining regulation, and acknowledging that no policy which pretends to have a concern for climate change can be a serious policy if it ignores atomic energy.

He should, of course, abandon his mindless cap and trade proposals and remove the government and its intrusions from a free energy market. Of course, Obama will never do that because this is his backdoor into socialism-not that he needs a backdoor having boldly marched through the front door in taking over much of the banks, the automobile industry, the finance industry, and the insurance industry.

[donmeaker]

The rule of thumb: Those with the prettiest uniforms lose the war.

Recall how fabulous those Nazi uniforms are in all the movies? Who can forget the picture of Lee in his finest gold braid surrendering to Grant in his private’s uniform with General shoulder straps dirt? how about the Redcoats surrendering to General Washington at Yorktown?