Saturday, July 24, 2010

National Security Nonsense

Now this is remarkably obtuse: Commentary's Evelyn Gordon argues for a Republican dirigiste energy policy: 


"But Democratic stupidity is no excuse for Republican stupidity. There’s no way to combat any terrorist movement without going after its funding sources, and fossil-fuel revenues are the lifeblood of radical Islamism — and of many other anti-American autocrats, like Chavez and Vladimir Putin. Ignoring the problem of fossil-fuel dependency won’t make it go away; it will only make America weaker."

Hey great Idea: double our cost of energy, abandon our technological dominance of oil and gas exploration and production, wreck our economy and the rest of the world still (rationally) uses oil so the price remains high and our enemies have the same amount of money while we are impoverished and no longer dominate the industry that makes them rich making them less subject to our influence.

Brilliant. Where does one get such deep insights? C’tary has lost it on this one which strange because Editor Podhoretz is a Chicago boy. They need to reboot on this topic

1 comment:

  1. An analysis you can also bring up would be about legalization of marijuana and other garbage talk that society today mentions, claiming it would lower crime. If a toothless Bozo/Bimbo could not afford a street price of crack, what makes Lawmakers think those very same people would be able to afford a legal sale market price of that same garbage in the first place? The answer is simple really, they resort to stealing, back to basics of square one, perhaps a rise in more criminal activity, thus a complete opposite of their so called good intentions.

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