re: #252 Obdicut

No, you don’t get it, for no apparent reason.

Every item under his plan for reduction of the oil imports from the ME is about decreasing our oil consumption and building alternative energy.

Yes, it is basically just a semantic ploy by Obama. It’s a good way to sell reduction of oil. The effect it will have on the Middle East is to lower the price of oil. And, as I said, tactically and strategically it’s good for the US.

What about this don’t you get, still?

1. Explain to me why influencing US foreign policy (which you admit) is not simply the flip side of kow-towing (which you deny).
2. Explain the difference between a semantic ploy and a lie.
I need to know this in order to reconsider what I thought was a clear policy statement by Pres. Obama directed to ending oil dependence from ME regimes which do not share America’s interests.
3. Explain to me why America cannot reduce its imports of oil from ME sources immediately and offset those reductions by temporarily increasing its imports from non-ME sources until alternate non-oil sources can be developed.