If we were not faced with the near inevitability of long-term hostilities in the middle-east before ... we certainly are now.

And for reasons of international politics? Hardly. We are doing it for reasons of domestic politics. Because we haven't a political party in power anywhere, or even capable of being influential anywhere, willing to stand up and tell the truth

The time has come for first-world folks to lower their standard of living, stop iving beyond their means, and discuss HOW not whether, to level the economic playing field with other countries. Well that and stop consuming energy you are incapable of producing internally.

Denial is not the name of a river.

DA Morgan