World Oil Checkpoints

Belmont Club has a disturbing post postulating that the oil disruption tactics being used in Saudi Arabia and Iraq may be widening in scope. In Frank Herbert in his novel Dune said that he who can destroy a thing, controls the thing. There are some who don't think that Al Qaeda is a real enemy, that we are in a real war, or that there is any way that Al Qaeda can threaten us directly. Al Qaeda is not going to invade America today and put us under Sharia law, but unconfronted or appeased the threat will grow. We can confront them now, with every bit of power and a focused national will or we can confront them later when they are stronger but confront them we must or perish.