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Energy security, the unstable Middle East, and the wisdom of electing Donald Trump

A wise man once wrote that ‘wisdom is vindicated by her children.’ (Matthew 11:19) Or, to put it another way, that we can judge who is truly wise by how their actions work out.

If we accept that axiom, then the wisdom of electing our president should be becoming increasingly obvious. Undeniable, really.

A case in point: Back in the 1970s, the economy of the Western world was held up for ransom by a few relatively unstable Middle Eastern nations. This, because they, by an act of nature, owned much of the energy upon which the modern world depends.

Since that time, we have seen several different approaches to preventing that ‘ransom’ situation from happening again — approaches that included President Jimmy Carter’s wishful thinking that a non-petroleum-based synthetic energy source could be economically developed and manufactured, to President Barack Obama’s equally ‘wishful’ thinking that the hateful and unstable Middle Eastern countries could be bought off and won over by simple kowtowing to them while sending them billions of dollars of American cash.

None of that worked. There was no wisdom in those approaches that could be “vindicated by her children.”

Read the full story from American Thinker


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