It Is Never Wrong To Be On

Gas Prices In Many Parts Of The Country Are Nearing $4 A Gallon; It Could Get Even Worse As Unrest Spreads Throughout The Oil-exporting Middle East. Yet The Obama Administration Once Again Seems To See No Crisis. It Has Curtailed New Leases For Offshore Oil Exploration For Seven Years And Exempted Thousands Of Acres In The West From New Drilling. It Will Not Reconsider Opening Up Small Areas Of Alaska With Known Large Oil Reserves.

History Has Shown That A Government's Redistribution Of Shrinking Wealth, In Preference To A Private Sector's Creation Of New Sources Of It, Can Prove More Destructive Than Even The Most Deadly Enemy.

In Iraq #1 We Stayed Within U.n. Mandates, Limited Our Response, Went Home After Kuwait Was Freed - And Were Censured For Allowing Shiites And Kurds To Be Butchered And Not Going To Baghdad When The Road Was Open And The Dictator Tottering. In Iraq #2 We Removed The Tyrant At Less Cost Than The Liberation Of Kuwait During The Earlier War, Stayed On To Ensure Freedom And Fair Representation For Various Groups - And Are Being Castigated For Either Using Too Little Force To Ensure Needed Order Or Too Much Power That Stifles Indigenous Aspirations And Turns Popular Opinion Against Us.

I Think People Are Beating Each Other Up In The Halls Of Congress, As They Did In The Late 1850s.

I Think Everybody Realizes Some Things Went Wrong In The Middle East And That Most Of The Terrorism Is Emanating From That Area.