I Don't Think The Arab Spring Had

I Have No Problem With A War For Oil-if We Accompany It With A Real Program For Energy Conservation. But When We Tell The World We Couldn't Care Less About Climate Change, That We Feel Entitled To Drive Whatever Big Cars We Feel Like, That We Feel Entitled To Consume However Much Oil We Like, The Message We Send Is That A War For Oil In The Gulf Is Not A War To Protect The World's Right To Economic Survival-but Our Right To Indulge. Now That Will Be Seen As Immoral.

America Was The Funder Of Petro-dictatorships. We Treated All These Countries As Basically Big, Large Gas Stations: Libya Station, Iraq Station, Iran Station, Egypt Station, Syria Station, And All We Asked Of Them Were Three Things: Keep Your Palms Open, Your Prices Low And Don't Bother Israel Too Much, And You Can Do Whatever You Want To Your Own People.

Watching Both The Health Care And Climate/energy Debates In Congress, It Is Hard Not To Draw The Following Conclusion: There Is Only One Thing Worse Than One-party Autocracy, And That Is One-party Democracy, Which Is What We Have In America Today. One-party Autocracy Certainly Has Its Drawbacks. But When It Is Led By A Reasonably Enlightened Group Of People, As China Is Today, It Can Also Have Great Advantages.

The Poverty Fighters Resent The Climate-change Folks; Climate Folks Hold Summits Without Reference To Biodiversity; The Food Advocates Resist The Biodiversity Protectors. They All Need To Go On Safari Together.

Remember, In China When You Are One In A Million, There Are 1,300 Other People Just Like You.