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September 29, 2006
Coddling the Coddlers
All well and good. But where's the hue and cry from Bush, Cheney, pick-a-GOP senator, and Blair that our oil-rich so-called Arab "allies" -- like the Saudis, Egypt, Kuwait, UAE, etc. -- need to step up and (i) shame terrorists as un-Muslim, (ii) cut off all funding to these people, and (iii) cut the price of oil to show their good faith. Where's the criticism?
I say that for this reason. Bush, Cheney, and the GOP attach machine have long been quick to call Democrats everything short of wretched cowardly traitors. But where's a word of criticism about our so-called Arab allies? [For that matter, where's Andrew Sullivan asking that question of Blair?]
Why is that? Why is it alright for Bush to viciously attack Americans as cowards and traitors, yet stand mute about our Arab allies' direct financial support of terrorism -- including the anti-west, anti-Judeo-Christian Madrases?
These countries are not our "allies." They are our drug dealers, holding us hostage with oil.
Bush should not merely be threatening to spend $300 Billion on a Manhattan project to get us off oil -- which he doesn't, by the way. He should be leading us to energy independence by twisting GOP arms in Congress to spend that money. [Did I say twisting arms? In these times, perhaps I should say jawboning.]
Instead, since it's all about keeping power for power's sake, Bush -- or "Merkle," as I think he'd like to be called, given his penchant for nicknames and all things baseball -- comforts America by telling us that Democrats are cowardly terrorist coddlers.
So, by not challenging the energy-based status quo in the Mid-east, what kind of coddler does that make Bush?
Posted by shertaugh at September 29, 2006 11:24 AM
Comments
Ah, the Democratic demand for 'energy independence'. I'll believe you're serious when you agree to:
1) drill ANWR
2) drill off the California coast
3) drill off the Florida Straits and North Carolina
Each location has massive amounts of oil and natural gas beneath the ocean floor. That's documented and it can be accessed with current technology.
And one more:
4) permit wind farms on Cape Cod
That should do as a sign of good faith from the progressives.
[SHERTAUGH: I regret not being more clear. My point is an alternative to OIL is crucial for strategic reasons well beyond energy independence. OIL is what finances terror -- whether we buy it or China does. What we need to do is make OIL OBSOLETE. Since none of your suggestions make OIL OBSOLETE, and thereby cut off ALL MONIES to Arab terrorist countries (like our friends the Saudis), there's no reason to go there.]
Posted by: Steve White at September 29, 2006 11:55 AM