If you use the Lexis-Nexis access through Leyburn, you can do a search for Friedman's recent articles on his "Geo-Green" strategy. As I note in a comment on Res Severa, Friedman deems oil conservation essential to national security. If you do the L-N search, have a look at "No Mullah Left Behind", or any of his other articles on the Geo-Green phenomenon. In "No Mullah", he says the following:
[T]he Bush energy policy is: ''No Mullah Left Behind.''Friedman also has a great deal to say about outsourcing and foreign direct investment. One of his articles previews his new book; it talks about how suddenly American white collar workers are competing with computer programmers in Bangalore, India, for instance. Queen Deviant has touched on this issue.
By adamantly refusing to do anything to improve energy conservation in America, or to phase in a $1-a-gallon gasoline tax on American drivers, or to demand increased mileage from Detroit's automakers, or to develop a crash program for renewable sources of energy, the Bush team is -- as others have noted -- financing both sides of the war on terrorism. We are financing the U.S. armed forces with our tax dollars, and, through our profligate use of energy, we are generating huge windfall profits for Saudi Arabia, Iran and Sudan, where the cash is used to insulate the regimes from any pressure to open up their economies, liberate their women or modernize their schools, and where it ends up instead financing madrassas, mosques and militants fundamentally opposed to the progressive, pluralistic agenda America is trying to promote. Now how smart is that?
Provocative stuff... thoughts?
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