On Feb 19, 5:04�am, John H. wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:55:00 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould

wrote:
On Feb 18, 6:38?pm, John H. wrote:

Now, you've said a whole lot of words. But none of them answered the simple
questions you raised with your initial comments about military assets in
the Mid-East.

I'll be more obvious. We shouldn't have to *care* whether Iran
controls all of the oil in the middle East.

But since we *do* have to care....

Would you just adopt the liberal position that we should bring all our
troops home from the mid-east and everyone will be nice to us?
--
John H

My point is, and has been, that we allow ourselves to be in a position
of "having to care" because we lack the courage to establish energy
independence and because the corporate oxen of some *huge*
contributors to politicians on both sides of the aisle will be badly
gored if we do.

As evidence that we are politically invested in remaining oil vassals
of the mideast sheiks, I offer Ann Coulter's recent remarks about
electric cars:

http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/02...electric-cars/