Monday, November 14, 2005
Terrorism & ANWR
Terrorism & ANWR
It is a simple fact that terrorist’s need money to operate. They have to have materials for bombs and/or weapons of any kind. This means that there has to be a source of revenue and since they produce nothing it must come from sources that are sympathetic to their cause or a source ignorant of uses of their donated funds. Since most of the major terrorist activity is in the Middle East it follows that there is oil revenue that is being used to fund terrorism. Why? Because that is the dominant and most profitable commodity in that region. There may be some drug trafficking and smuggling, but it stands to reason that the major industrial commodity is the largest source of revenue.
The United States buys 0.5 billion gallons of oil from Saudi Arabia per year. At $65.00 dollars per barrel this amounts to $32,500,000,000.00 we send to Saudi Arabia every year. Some of this money gets into the hands of terrorists in the region and funds their activities which includes killing our soldiers in Iraq. And what are we doing about this cash flow that is leading to death of our soldiers and empowering terrorists?
For one thing we are not moving toward greater self sufficiency of our oil supply. There are groups that resist us drilling in known oil fields in and around our country, demanding that non-human existence has a higher political priority than the safety of our soldiers. If we were more self sufficient regarding our oil supply we could cut off the donations we are sending to a part of the world where terrorists abound. Would we have sent oil to Hitler during the Second World War? Would we have supplied Japan with revenue to build war material after Pearl Harbor? I think not. Yet we are sending major revenue to a region in the world that nationalized our oil wells, harbors terrorists and scoffs at our efforts to bring peace and stability to a part of the world that relies on tyranny and warlords for governance.
This is why, if we are serious in our war against terror, we must move toward a self sufficient energy source. We supplied the Shah of Iran revenue which he used to build up his country’s military power and then was overthrown by an Islamic terrorist which led to the current government of antagonism in Iran. We supplied Arafat funds to police the terrorists and the results are obvious. We need to cut off the money instead of sending it where the terrorists can get their hands on it. And we can cut off the money if we drill and refine our own oil, stop paying for the poor results of failed and failing diplomacy and show that we are serious in fighting this war with a clear path to victory, a total unconditional surrender of the enemy and those nations who harbor them and finally never considering a stalemate such as was accepted in Korea and Vietnam.
The alternative is to keep funding the terrorists and expect their ability to strike us at home. War requires more than just a declaration of intent. It requires a total commitment to victory or you end up with the prolonged agony of losing soldiers, the continued presence of the enemy and time on the enemy’s side to fight on. It requires those who want to continue to live in this land of the free to understand that we cannot hamstring our resources and productive capacity to dreamy fantasies of preservation for future generations that may be wiped out by terrorists.
This issue is no longer about the history of the United States that all living citizens have experienced. It is about the future, if there is to be one. It is not about setting aside but protecting from foreign invasion. We are fast approaching that era where like Europe we do not have the luxury of vast wastelands that no one may utilize and may turn out to only be useful for sneak attacks from abroad. The issue in the war on terror is survival and nothing else trumps this. You cannot save a vast expanse if the country has a tyranny that allows no voice for such desires. And the way you get a tyranny is to continue to fund the terrorists via the purchase of the commodity from their enablers that you could produce on your own soil. It is no longer just the dream of the environmentalist that must be recognized if this country is to remain a beacon for those who want their dreams seen, heard and realized. The country must be protected ( preserved if you like ) for any other values to exist. The priority is plain, the method is clear, the mission is absolute. It has reached the either/or option. ANWR or the terrorists.
It is a simple fact that terrorist’s need money to operate. They have to have materials for bombs and/or weapons of any kind. This means that there has to be a source of revenue and since they produce nothing it must come from sources that are sympathetic to their cause or a source ignorant of uses of their donated funds. Since most of the major terrorist activity is in the Middle East it follows that there is oil revenue that is being used to fund terrorism. Why? Because that is the dominant and most profitable commodity in that region. There may be some drug trafficking and smuggling, but it stands to reason that the major industrial commodity is the largest source of revenue.
The United States buys 0.5 billion gallons of oil from Saudi Arabia per year. At $65.00 dollars per barrel this amounts to $32,500,000,000.00 we send to Saudi Arabia every year. Some of this money gets into the hands of terrorists in the region and funds their activities which includes killing our soldiers in Iraq. And what are we doing about this cash flow that is leading to death of our soldiers and empowering terrorists?
For one thing we are not moving toward greater self sufficiency of our oil supply. There are groups that resist us drilling in known oil fields in and around our country, demanding that non-human existence has a higher political priority than the safety of our soldiers. If we were more self sufficient regarding our oil supply we could cut off the donations we are sending to a part of the world where terrorists abound. Would we have sent oil to Hitler during the Second World War? Would we have supplied Japan with revenue to build war material after Pearl Harbor? I think not. Yet we are sending major revenue to a region in the world that nationalized our oil wells, harbors terrorists and scoffs at our efforts to bring peace and stability to a part of the world that relies on tyranny and warlords for governance.
This is why, if we are serious in our war against terror, we must move toward a self sufficient energy source. We supplied the Shah of Iran revenue which he used to build up his country’s military power and then was overthrown by an Islamic terrorist which led to the current government of antagonism in Iran. We supplied Arafat funds to police the terrorists and the results are obvious. We need to cut off the money instead of sending it where the terrorists can get their hands on it. And we can cut off the money if we drill and refine our own oil, stop paying for the poor results of failed and failing diplomacy and show that we are serious in fighting this war with a clear path to victory, a total unconditional surrender of the enemy and those nations who harbor them and finally never considering a stalemate such as was accepted in Korea and Vietnam.
The alternative is to keep funding the terrorists and expect their ability to strike us at home. War requires more than just a declaration of intent. It requires a total commitment to victory or you end up with the prolonged agony of losing soldiers, the continued presence of the enemy and time on the enemy’s side to fight on. It requires those who want to continue to live in this land of the free to understand that we cannot hamstring our resources and productive capacity to dreamy fantasies of preservation for future generations that may be wiped out by terrorists.
This issue is no longer about the history of the United States that all living citizens have experienced. It is about the future, if there is to be one. It is not about setting aside but protecting from foreign invasion. We are fast approaching that era where like Europe we do not have the luxury of vast wastelands that no one may utilize and may turn out to only be useful for sneak attacks from abroad. The issue in the war on terror is survival and nothing else trumps this. You cannot save a vast expanse if the country has a tyranny that allows no voice for such desires. And the way you get a tyranny is to continue to fund the terrorists via the purchase of the commodity from their enablers that you could produce on your own soil. It is no longer just the dream of the environmentalist that must be recognized if this country is to remain a beacon for those who want their dreams seen, heard and realized. The country must be protected ( preserved if you like ) for any other values to exist. The priority is plain, the method is clear, the mission is absolute. It has reached the either/or option. ANWR or the terrorists.
