Global Warming and Islamic-Nukes

I tend to believe the vast majority of scientists that assert that global warming is a man-made phenomenon. But, that is not the point I want to discuss.

The important point to me is that because of concerns about global warming, we may may finally have enough people interested in doing something that needed to be done a long time ago, namely finding alternative affordable sources of energy. Finding alternative energy sources is critical to our national security, and to me, national security imperatives are paramount.

I think that the threat of nuclear terrorism is real. We have no reason not to take Ahmadinejad seriously when he claims to want to "wipe Israel off the map." I believe that he is not just willing but eager to make a trade-off of many millions of his own citizens' lives that would be killed in the retaliation that followed in order to kill fewer millions of Americans or Israelis.

Detering Iran once they have a nuke will be almost impossible, let's not be naive and think otherwise. Therefore, we should do everything in our power to stop them from acquiring or developing one.

Hopefully, we can do so without military force. Economic sanctions are one approach. Isolating Iran dimplomatically is another. A naval blockade of Iran would be a third. However, perhaps the strongest weapon we have in the long run is to take away their only source of revenue, oil. If the option is still available, we should do so not temporarily through a blockade, but permanently by eliminating our need for it and causing the price of oil to plummet.

By solving our oil addiction, we cut off funds to Middle-Eastern countries with theological, genocidal, totalitarian governments. In turn, their ability to fund terrorists disappears and with it their nuclear threat to the free world. We have no choice. We must develop alternate energy sources. Not doing so is akin to digging our own graves.

Too many people do not seem to appreciate the magnitude of the threat. Perhaps to them, questions of an existential nature are not their cup of tea and they would rather watch news about Anna Nicole Smith than learn they may be vaporized by an Islamic-nuke one day in the not-too-distant future. But, some of these same people are motivated by global warming. So, if that is what it takes, so be it.

I am glad that many people are motivated by global warming. We need all the help we can get.
Then, hopefully, we will be around to enjoy living in an environmentally sound world.