Withdraw or Stand Firm?

…So how do we get of Iraq with our dignity and not have a costly energy crisis?

In the short term, we can’t. In the long term, America is the Saudi Arabia of coal. Technologies are already proven for making coal into synthetic gas and liquid fuel, and when crude oil runs low enough that it becomes unduly expensive, we’ll put this technology in the field and become a net exporter of fuel to the world. That’s two decades in the future, however.

In the meantime, we’d better get to work drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Slope of Alaska and ramping up production, with apologies to the environmentalists.

Or we can continue to get shot at in the streets of Baghdad.

Military.com