This is not about oil, it is about failure by our leaders to lead us well. Not knowing what to do has never stopped anybody from saying, "Let me do it." Our State Department has been inept for so long we do not know how to do anything right.
Almost daily we read of America's "waning power" and "inevitable decline," as observers argue over the consequences of defense cuts and budget crises.
Yet much of the new American "leading from behind" strategy is a matter of choice, not necessity. Apparently, both left-wing critics of U.S. foreign policy and right-wing Jacksonians are tiring of spending blood and treasure on seemingly ungrateful Middle Easterners -- after two Gulf wars, the decade in Afghanistan, and various interventions in Lebanon and Libya.
We certainly have plenty of planes and bombs with which to pound Syria's Bashir al-Assad. Never in the last 70 years has...
If you want a president who is not afraid to fire people for corruption, abuse, redundancy of purpose, and overreach of authority, vote for Romney.