Energy policy

Cliff May writes on NRO:

Coffee Talk [Cliff May]

The president needs to talk, in more depth and detail than he has in the past, —
about measuring success in Iraq, the consequences should we fail there, and the
connections, which too many people still can't see, between Iraq and the broader
conflict. Also: how we begin, finally, to craft an energy policy that reduces
the economic/political/military power of Middle Eastern oil.
Reliable sources tell me he will do all of the above.

It's ok to talk about "an energy policy that reduces the economic/political/military power of Middle Eastern oil.". Talk is cheap. Talk makes people feel good. Bush should talk about this, absolutely !

There is an "energy policy that reduces the economic/political/military power of Middle Eastern oil." : start drilling like mad on the continental shelf, and in Alaska (for oil). Build nuclear power plants. But I bet Bush won't say this. It is not PC. He's got lately into the habit of parroting more and more of the nonesense that is fashionable, and less of the truth.