Montana is a perfect example of how the "environmental" movement serves to Third-World-ize certain sections of our country and to entrench the rich and powerful even more snugly.
Working farms, ranches, mines, mills--all closed. All having provided families with a healthy and prosperous life. Now many of these people work as serfs on the designer ranches of the Beautiful People when they come up to play cowboy for three months a year. The wives clean the toilets in the marble 20X20 bathrooms of the "ranch" houses.
The products they once provided to the nation and the world are now produced on corporate latafundia in the "third world".
I guess it's just kismet--as the peaceful mohammedans say....
If we did what I proposed on the oil ... particularly exploiting our own, developing the alternatives and taing k the oil from those nations who attack us or abett and harbor those who do ... you would see western Europe following suite and you would see the Japanese and other Asian powers looking to us and elsewhere themselves.
I believe the ROW can stiff the Arabs ... and should. Why if we alone did it, those Arab nations would get the picture and come to us and others on bended knee. We then dictate the terms to them ... which include ridding them of their fundemantal/radical propblem. The choice for them at that point is simple ... either do so or :
1) Go Bankrupt>
2) Be defeated if you side with your radical/fundamental influences and attack us in any way or abett anyone who deos.