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• 1 Kevin B. O'Reilly // Dec 5, 2007 at 8:31 pm

  So you’re for tax increases and government-funded alternative energy boondoggles now? That’s disturbing.

• 2 Adam // Dec 6, 2007 at 10:18 pm

  Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, as the saying goes…

  I think Friedman hits the nail on the head in terms of the poor long-term strategy (or lack of a long-term strategy) to deal with terrorism. Although we know America’s problems with terrorism, Iran, religious strife in the Middle East, etc. are all interconnected with our dependency on their oil. Because of our dependency upon cheap and plentiful oil, there’s not alot we really can do in terms of stopping violence, actually challenging repressive governments like the Saudi’s, etc.

  The U.S. government needs to realize that our energy problems and terrorism problems ARE INTERTWINED. They are not seperate issues.

  And Friedman is also dead on about about the GOP’s, and American’s in general, dogmatic aversion to tax increases. It’s a major problem, that politicians are not willing to bring up, and is resulting in massive foreign debt. I truly believe this problem will cause more harm to America than any terrorist attach ever could…because when people lose power, they try to grab it back. When a country loses stature and gets despret, it will do despret things. That’s what scares me most about the future. If America is willing to give up the bedrock principle of habeas corpus over 3,000 lives, what will happen in the next attack, or if we enter a war to regain our military dominance?

  Scary stuff.