Petrolism - great rant about our chicken-wimp-sissy Prez & Veep!

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com>
Date: January 8, 2006 4:56:56 PM EST
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Petrolism - great rant about our chicken-wimp-sissy Prez &  
Veep!

[Keep in mind that we give all sorts of tax-breaks and corporate  
welfare to Big Oil, plus giving them access to OUR public-owned oil  
reserves ... in which we tax-payers buy high and sell low!  --jim]

> The New Red, White and Blue
>
> By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Op-Ed Columnist
> NY Times, January 6, 2006
> http://select.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/opinion/06friedman.html
>
> As we enter 2006, we find ourselves in trouble, at home and abroad.  
> We are in trouble because we are led by defeatists - wimps, actually.
> What's so disturbing about President Bush and Dick Cheney is that  
> they talk tough about the necessity of invading Iraq, torturing  
> terror suspects and engaging in domestic spying - all to defend our  
> way of life and promote democracy around the globe.
> But when it comes to what is actually the most important issue in  
> U.S. foreign and domestic policy today - making ourselves energy  
> efficient and independent, and environmentally green - they  
> ridicule it as something only liberals, tree-huggers and sissies  
> believe is possible or necessary.
> ... Sticking with oil, and basically saying that a country that can  
> double the speed of microchips every 18 months is somehow incapable  
> of innovating its way to energy independence - that is for sissies,  
> defeatists and people who are ready to see American values eroded  
> at home and abroad.
> Living green is not just a "personal virtue," as Mr. Cheney says.  
> It's a national security imperative.
> The biggest threat to America and its values today is not  
> communism, authoritarianism or Islamism. It's petrolism. Petrolism  
> is my term for the corrupting, antidemocratic governing practices -  
> in oil states from Russia to Nigeria and Iran ...
> ...
> ...<big snip> ...
> ...
> Enough of this Bush-Cheney nonsense that conservation, energy  
> efficiency and environmentalism are some hobby we can't afford. I  
> can't think of anything more cowardly or un-American. Real  
> patriots, real advocates of spreading democracy around the world,  
> live green.
> Green is the new red, white and blue.



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