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Thursday, February 10, 2005

Victor Davis Hanson has it right!

In the February 2005 issue of Commentary Magazine Mr. Hanson has an article titled
"Has Iraq Weakened Us?." His conclusion is the opposite, but I thought the most interesting
quote from the article is this:


"If Americans have learned anything from the careers of Qaddafi, the Saudi royal family, Saddam Hussein, and the Iranian clergy, it is that huge petroleum profits accruing among illegitimate autocrats are a recipe for global terrorism and regional havoc. One way to end the present pathology is for the United States, accepting that concerns for our national survival can sometimes trump the logic of finding the cheapest energy source, to develop a policy that helps drive down world petroleum prices. Another option is far more aggressively to promote democratic reforms among the petrol sheikdoms themselves. A third is to do both. Given the entry of India and China into the world petroleum market, fostering tighter global demand while potentially circumscribing our own clout, the hour is more urgent than ever; but the Middle East is also, and once again thanks to the ongoing reform of Iraq and Afghanistan, more fluid and perhaps more promising than ever." (My emphasis.)

He is saying in my interpretation:

  1. Nuclear Power Plants to reduce our dependency on oil
  2. Win in Iraq, thereby promoting democratic reforms in the oil sheikdoms
  3. Agressively pursue both of these

Sounds like we are on the right track if we can start looking at nuclear power as a necessity.

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