Woody Hochswender’s column in today’s NYT‘s criticizes the anti-SUV crowd and those who argue that US consumption of oil and US presence in the Middle East is somehow the reason for terrorism. It occurs to me: has anyone considered all the good that the billions of dollars that the US has sent to buy oil from the Middle East has done? Were it not for Western concumption, what little infrastructure that exists in many Middle Eastern countries simply wouldn’t be there. Indeed, if the regimes in place were a bit more democratic, the people of the oil rich states would be exceptionally well off–especially if US citizens were to continue gassing up their SUVs.
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