Friday, May 16, 2008
NYT Headline Today: Bush Rebuffed on Oil Plea in Saudi Arabia
I find it sad and embarrassing to have our president pleading with the Saudi’s to produce more oil because the price is too high here in America. Saudi Arabia is the country that produced 15 of the 16 hijackers that perpetrated the Twin Tower attacks on 9/11. It’s the country that indoctrinates all young people to hate the infidels of the west. And our leader, the purported leader of the free world, is “pleading” with these guys for more oil. This is the second time this year he’s prostrated himself for this purpose. And both times he’s been rebuffed.
How fitting is this for a president who has no energy policy? Recently, Tom Friedman pointed out in a recent column that this is the president who told people after 9/11 to go out shopping and buy something instead of asking Americans, who were passionately patriotic and wanting to help at that time, for some personal sacrifice in helping to reduce our dependence on imported oil. If we had spent the past 7 years on a national initiative for energy independence we may have been in a position by now where we don’t need that part of the world. Instead we’ve doubled the National Debt by waging a needless war, have nothing to show for it, and will be there — blowing more trillions of dollars — for many, many more years.
It’s beginning to look like the country with the greatest power is the country that has the most oil… and the country that uses the most oil is the beggar.
“Please Dad, Please… Can I have the keys to the family car?”
How sad. How tragic.
T
