The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are . . . the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us,

The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are . . . the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.

Oil imports and the dark cloud they cast over this country requires dramatic and immediate attention. When that prolonged oil crisis occurs, Americans will pay anything because they will have no choice. Why wait until a catastrophe strikes to get truly serious about addressing the problem?

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.

After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide of a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine they call shariah.