Sunday, January 14, 2007

Let EVERYBODY sacrifice

Look, I'm not too fond of Thomas Friedman but he said something the other day that I wish the president would hear:

Mr. President, you want a surge? I’ll surge. I’ll surge on the condition that you once and for all enlist the entire American people in this war effort, and stop putting it all on the shoulders of 130,000 military families, and now 20,000 more. I’ll surge on the condition that you make them fight all of us — and that means a real energy policy, with a real gasoline tax, that ends our addiction to oil, shrinks the flow of petro-dollars to bad actors and makes America the world’s leader in conservation.

But please, Mr. President, stop insulting our intelligence by telling us that this is the “decisive ideological struggle of our time,” but we’re going to put the whole burden of victory on 150,000 U.S. soldiers.


If the American people as a whole were required to make sacrifices, then this war would come to an end pretty quickly. And that's why Bush doesn't do it. He knows that, when it comes to this war, the hearts of Americans are really not in it. But we're so apathetic as a people that, as long as it doesn't affect us personally, we just let it keep on going.

Put a substantial war tax on gasoline and watch Americans take to the streets.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous5:19 AM

    No, quite the opposite takes place here in Michigan, we are today at 1.78
    /gal on Jan 16, 2007 and that at a Mobil station! Isn't that anything but mockery. Stefanie

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