A Caribou for a Caliphate

Article contributed by
David Dvorak
(a.k.a. The Purple Elvis)

As I was filling up my tank yesterday at $2.35 a gallon, I found myself pondering Iran. I wondered how much of my $2.35 was going into the pocket of those fanatical Ayatollah’s; you know the one’s who say Israel should be wiped off the map; and that the Holocaust never happened; and that the United States, you and me, are the wellspring of all evil; yeah those same ones who are a couple months away from building a nuclear bomb. It seemed ironic to me that the money I was giving them for gas, might very well be headed back my or Israel’s way someday in the form of a warhead. Then I wondered, with 6 continents of relatively normal people, why in the hell are we pumping money into these Islamic states, which have declared us their enemy? Then I remembered this map:

You see that little region in the right hand corner of Alaska? That’s ANWR. Now take a look at the little green area in the larger map; this is the coastal plain which has unknown amount of oil-reserves. Finally look a little closer at the tiny red box. This is the proposed development area. That’s it. That’s what all the fuss is about. The conservationalists have deemed this land too precious to drill upon because of these caribou.

The insanity of this, when we are faced with real evil which challenges our very civilization, is just plain Orwellian. I would love for the West to have the option of saying to Iran, “not only aren’t we going to buy your oil till you dismantle your nuclear program, but we are taking immediate steps to block every single drop of oil coming out of your caliphate.” But we don’t have this option, in part because of the caribou. Yeah that’s a great trade, a caliphate for a caribou. -dd


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