Posted on 01/06/2008 8:06:42 AM PST by Bob J
Newt is a great man... but I have to say he is loosing me with his new found envirowacho position and his support for Mike Huckabee.
Newt, the War on Terror is not World War 2 and you are not Winston Churchill. It amazing how a normally bright guy, and a histoy professor, can be so utterly stupid on this topic.
Counter Insurgency is not Total War. Trying to fight the former with the tactics of the latter has always turned out to be disasterous. Something a History Prof should be aware of. Amazing how stupid Newt is on this topic.
--good article , but Newt really needs a science advisor--
bump for later read
Our current problem is tragic. You have an administration whose policy is inadequate being opposed by a political left whose policy is worse, and you have nobody prepared to talk about the policy we need. Because we are told if you are for a strong America , you should back the Bush policy even if it's inadequate, and so you end up making an argument in favor of something that can't work. So your choice is to defend something which isn't working or to oppose it by being for an even weaker policy. So this is a catastrophe for this country and a catastrophe for freedom around the world. Because we have refused to be honest about the scale of the problem.
This is the core of the problem, as incisively phrased as I could possibly imagine.
Has America ever won a “counter insurgency” war? I don’t mean an armistice or a negotiated settlement. I mean unconditional victory.
Wow...this is the man who should be President.
It is ridiculous to compare the Bush Administration to the Chamberlain! Going back to reading...hope my head doesn’t explode.
Unfortunately this is probably what it is going to take before the useful idiots realize total war has been declared upon us. Even then the subversives that lead them will decry how we deserve it for someone putting panties on the heads of prisoners and water boarding those that wish to destroy us so as to obtain info.
He is most often the smartest man in any room but you think he is utterly stupid on the topic of WOT?
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan
If carried out, 35% of the nation’s energy would eventually come from solar.
Thousands of square miles of currently vacant, mostly government-controlled land would be set aside or obtained in the southwest. On it, solar energy would be captured both photovoltaically and via collectors as hot fluid, distributed immediately to regions as HVDC, then stored as compressed air in abandoned mines, caverns, wells, etc. Separately, pressurized air would be converted to AC and distributed through the current network.
I am looking for downsides to this proposal. Clearly it requires a large-scale national commitment, and a conviction that technologies and cost-effectivness will continue to improve as the work proceeds. All of this is discussed in the article.
Please read the article and comment. May the discussion transcend red-vs-blue.
One wants to know a successful strategy against a “counter insurgency” war - as though that were a special category.
I think geo-thermal makes more sense. The technology for deep drilling (of oil) has advanced to the point that mining the earth for its limitless thermal energy is economic.
--mines, caverns, wells leak, for starters-as well as the covering of a mere 19% of the southwest with "collectors"--$400 billion--think $400 trillion, maybe--
--nukes and coal--the only sane way for future energy supply --
Great article. I hope he does more of this.
Isn’t there a tree somewhere he should be hugging?
Solar is Stupid.
The same people who put us in this debacle by not wanting to harm one percent of the pristine wilderness of the FROZEN north where nobody goes will comnpletley destroy the beautiful deserts of the southwest forever. Millions of people enjoy the deserts unlike the maybe less than a hundred that visit the arctic each year.
Drill for oil in ANWR and get us off of OPEC oil and fully two thirds of the problem is solved. This also denies countries that support terrorism billions of dollars.
Drill some offshore areas and sell to China and use the billions for developing new energy technology and in the meantime give the overtaxed American people, especially the MIDDLE CLASS, some relief from ridiculously high gas prices.
You want to help the middle class? Drill our own oil and get the gas price down below $1.50.
Two or three months ago, I told my sister not to be surprised if we don’t see Newt coming out in support of Huckabee since Huckabee is the only one who has embraced Newt’s environmental / social “vision for America’s future”. Who knows, the two of them may have been hatching a plan for a long time.
I would not be surprised to see a “Huckabee/Gingrich” ticket for the ‘08 election.
Think it can’t happen? Think again.
Newt is VERY smart and knows that the country is looking for “change”. An H/G ticket would give him the platform he’s looking for to debate his ideas for change with the ‘RAT’s nominee’s ideas for change. ‘RATS wouldn’t stand a chance in that debate.
And I say that as a Thompson supporter whose dream ticket would be Fred Thompson/Duncan Hunter.
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