IDEAS, NOT NEWS ITEMS | 2006-05-29
I was asked what my policies would be if I were president.
I mentioned several, one of which was that if the oil cartel didn't stop cheating us, I'd sent in troops and take some oilfields.
Please note I did NOT say that if the oil cartel didn't stop ganging up on France or Britain or anybody else I would threaten them. I would not even name any specific set of oilfields we'd take.
I would say, "I am the AMERICAN president. You are robbing AMERICANS. If you don't get the price for US down to reasonable levels, I will see the cartel as an act of war, a combination against our national interests."
"We (The People of the United States of America and OUR Posterity) need oil. We can buy it or take it. But if we have to take it you'll pay the cost."
The AMERICAN oil problem would end so fast it wou ld make your ears ring.
Naturally somebody pointed out that I was just one of neos out to pick onthe Arabs.
He reads the paper too much or listens to too many "sources" and doesn't look at the Constitution and stuff like that.
But he also wrecks a discussion that is needed.
He wants me to defend myself, Bob Whitaaer, against being a NEO when what I have put on the table is something any real American has thought of from time to time.
He has fifty million news readers to shout "neo" at, but this is hte only place he will find somebody bring this idea out in the open.
And it is IDEA.
If his sources tell him that command of the US Armed Forces has been turned over to me, he needs to let ME know.
As a matter of fact, I think DISCUSSION of the POSSIBILITY of this action, if it got votes, would have OPEC in Washington clamoring for a deal if we won OR lost.
But before we could do this, we would have to deal with all the conspiracy freaks who are obsessed with labels and the latest poop (in BOTH senses of that word) about whatever is big on the Conspiracy Network right now.
West had it dead right: our challenge is not the antis, it's debate with EACH OTHER.
Anything out of hte box gets aborted at birth.
And we are NOT going to win by reciting inside the box.