Democrats want to help Iran by destroying US energy industry

Fletch Daniels:

President Donald Trump's restrained response to Iran's attack on Saudi Arabia shows that the U.S. is in a much stronger strategic position in reference to the Middle East than it has been in decades past.

This is largely thanks to America's emerging energy independence, the very thing Democrats promise to demolish at the first opportunity.

In this complex geopolitical situation, where you have a radical Shia regime attacking a radical Wahhabi Sunni state, there are no easy answers.

Showing that radicalism is not confined to the Middle East, the Democrats left all politics at the water cooler to unite in the face of the crisis by coolly chanting, "Impeach, impeach, impeach!" Perhaps they are so divorced from reality that they don't realize they are emboldening Iran by projecting disunity and weakness from America.

That said, it is challenging to name two countries that have done more damage to the United States and global security in recent years than Iran and Saudi Arabia. It brings to mind the quote by Henry Kissinger about the Iran-Iraq war that "it's a pity both sides can't lose."

Because we no longer are dependent on Middle East oil, we have more options in responding to this international crisis, to include showing strategic patience.

It is not in our interest to allow Iran to restrict the world's oil supply or to see the Saudi government fall. Any radical Islamist government that replaced the House of Saud would be worse than the corrupt and decadent pseudo-religious leadership of that country and far more hostile to the West.
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Iran's attack on the Saudis would have created a strategic catastrophe were it not for fracking displacing Middle Eastern oil shipments.  Democrats would destroy the energy industry and replace it with unreliable alternative energy which is vulnerable to extreme weather.  They would in the process destroy the transportation industry.   From energy workers to truck drivers and airlines it is not in the interest of anyone in those jobs to vote for Democrats.