tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post3485543735756851327..comments2024-03-28T10:00:45.108-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : Politicizing Energy IndependenceDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-9300918089904326812011-10-10T12:39:01.326-04:002011-10-10T12:39:01.326-04:00@ Anonymous, the tyranny to enforce self-sufficien...@ Anonymous, the tyranny to enforce self-sufficiency and independence seems like a paradoxical argument. <br /><br />But even then I don't know any laws that force people into installing solar panels.Halyconnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-40432003777221133052011-10-03T05:02:53.047-04:002011-10-03T05:02:53.047-04:00If someone installs solar panels into their house ...<i>If someone installs solar panels into their house it is not socialism but realism, because it makes them less dependent on external forces and leaves them room to assert their own existence.</i><br /><br />When it's a choice. When it's a mandate, it's tyranny.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-20979414275480500242011-10-02T14:50:40.318-04:002011-10-02T14:50:40.318-04:00Libya was different because of the Arab uprising. ...Libya was different because of the Arab uprising. <br /><br />The West had been using Libya as a place to interrogate terrorists. Gaddafi may be a dictator and he may have flown out to Italy to get attractive women to don the burqa and become a koranite but he was preferable to hard-lined Islamists. <br /><br />Let's dispense with the pretence that the West cares about global democracy because the U.S. is selling weapons to Bahrain and it isn't to rebels. The U.K. actually harboured the former Egyptian president, Mubarak despite Britain declaring support for democracy in the Middle East. <br /><br />It has never been about democracy but about getting people to "play ball". That is why dictators like Mugabe, Gadafi, Mubarak and co get to stay in power. <br /><br />The difference is when these dictators are fighting these Islamists or enabling them like the Saudis do.<br /><br />This isn't about listening to Al Gore, but making sure Al Qaeda doesn't get the petrodollars to throw the world hurtling back into the 7th century.Halyconnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-63543810746118843352011-10-02T12:34:11.625-04:002011-10-02T12:34:11.625-04:00the oil lobby didn't want Iraq invaded, that w...the oil lobby didn't want Iraq invaded, that would interrupt the supply, they wanted sanctions lifted<br /><br />Libya was a different matter because the Madman in Chief and his cronies were demanding too many bribesDaniel Greenfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-46751633126579880892011-10-02T12:29:44.639-04:002011-10-02T12:29:44.639-04:00We sure haven't gotten oil from Iraq. I'm ...We sure haven't gotten oil from Iraq. I'm not going to deny that the oil lobby played a significant role, one which they hid by pretending Iraq was threat to Israel. <br />We should have and still should do something about Iran. <br />Invading Pakistan ceased to be feasible when they became a nuclear power.RonLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14153955273265055016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-78409419799285254662011-10-02T09:24:43.281-04:002011-10-02T09:24:43.281-04:00@ Mike MD you make a lot of big talk but bring lit...@ Mike MD you make a lot of big talk but bring little substance. <br /><br />If you have nothing but bravado and insults then I have no time for you.<br /><br />@ cornholio Most of those chemical weapons had been destroyed after the Gulf war. <br /><br />How come America never invaded Iran for it's nuclear programme despite Iran being a clear antagonist to America? Or why wasn't Pakistan invaded despite it being a international training ground and safe haven for terrorists?<br /><br />Muslim dictators usually have an antagonistic relationship with Islamists and they clamp down on terrorists, so it's hard to see Saddam as being a threat to the West. But after removing Saddam, terrorists have swarmed in on Iraq without his iron grip. <br /><br />Big oil companies like Haliburton did enter Iraq and big corporations make use of donations and lobbies to secure their interest. <br /><br />Oil is fine as long as countries don't have to go to war over it and it does not empower the Muslims. <br /><br />I don't care whether oil is bought from Hugo Chavez, as long as it isn't used to spread Islam.Halyconnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-25166557119687428812011-10-02T01:08:53.481-04:002011-10-02T01:08:53.481-04:00Halcyon, something like a thousand Kurds were slau...Halcyon, something like a thousand Kurds were slaughtered through the use of mustard gas on Saddam's orders. Do you not consider mustard gas a WMD? If you don't maybe you should look at what it did on the battlefields of WW1...Kufar Dawghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13710592269001257962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-21160846742422628432011-10-01T15:18:13.080-04:002011-10-01T15:18:13.080-04:00Halcyon, where to start unraveling your thought, w...Halcyon, where to start unraveling your thought, when you leave so many low-hanging threads? Correcting one of your misconceptions would be like lopping a pound off Rosie O'Donnell; and what's the point.<br /><br />But I stand by Daniel, and so would you were you to remove the blinders of the mainstream media and, maybe, if it's more penetrating than just ignorance, your own narcissism.<br /><br />Mike MDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3944629114787666612011-10-01T14:05:59.750-04:002011-10-01T14:05:59.750-04:00This is a large leap to link conflict oil onto the...This is a large leap to link conflict oil onto the need for energy independence. <br /><br />The Japanese have nuclear reactors and they are not starting wars all over the planet.<br /><br />Oil is the reason that the U.S. got into the mess of the Iraq war because there were absolutely no weapons of mass destruction and that would make president Bush a war criminal if the Hague actually bothered to try him. Bush was by no means an environmentalist as shown on his stance on the Kyoto agreement. <br /><br />What you do not see is Islamic countries showing a loving embrace of alternative energy for very obvious reasons, because it would hurt their oil producing industries.<br /><br />Energy dependency deprives the Islamic countries of a key source of income, other than aid. <br /><br />If you oppose Islam then it is simply logical to want to enfeeble it by decreasing the amounts of oil purchased from them, which ends up being used to fund jihad. <br /><br />Environmentalism is the logical realisation that our artificially induced lifestyles rely on external inputs (oil) which are not infinite and can end up creating large deficits and empowering foreign enemies. <br /><br />Self-dependency is the epitome of existence and the Right who by extension are realists must be the first ones to acknowledge this. <br /><br />If someone installs solar panels into their house it is not socialism but realism, because it makes them less dependent on external forces and leaves them room to assert their own existence.Halyconnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-53215185932507781242011-09-29T19:52:38.811-04:002011-09-29T19:52:38.811-04:00Enjoy your Holiday, Shanah Tovah.Enjoy your Holiday, Shanah Tovah.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com