Another uneducated “feelie”

An editorial from George Washington University's campus newspaper "The Hatchet" seems reasonable on the surface - but only until you get to teh core of the issue and ask yourself the most basic question:

Will suspending the importation of oil actually end terror?

Hey! Stop snickering back there... You know that young people with virtually no life experience who live in a peaceful prosperous state are the only ones who know geopolitical trend and terror when they see them.

«These very funds subsequently finance the very people and organizations the "war" is supposedly waged against. By paying so little attention to demand and treatment among the populace the government perpetuates the very ills it claims to be attacking. This is exemplified by the documented increased use of even lower priced drugs since the "war" started.

The war on terrorism follows the same broken logic. The oft-quoted Thomas Friedman of the New York Times puts it best, "By doing nothing to lower U.S. oil consumption, we are financing both sides in the war on terrorism and strengthening the worst governments in the world. That is, we are financing the U.S. military with our tax dollars and we are financing the jihadists - and the Saudi, Sudanese and Iranian mosques and charities that support them - through our gasoline purchases.»

This fellow is actually naive enough to believe that the whole of Arab society is monolithic and hates the US (as much as he'd like them to in the drama of his mind), and supports terror.
Not only that, he’s also assuming that all the states and populations that support jihad are in oil rich states, and have no other component to their economies, nor would terror organizations trade in contraband and specifically war zone diamonds and narcotics to finance their habit. What about the OTHER stale lefty argument about poverty and economic desolation being the cause of terror?

Oh yeah, never mind that – the attitude of these types is that they’re so smart and emotionally squared away that he’s almost sure that all of the evils in the world can only come from his countrymen who won’t turn on them or call their bluff – of whom I’m sure they find themselves quite superior in intellect and experience.

Just remember that GRE (Graduate Record Examination) scores have been falling steadily since 1966 - the years that the preoccupation with protesting and "causes" took over higher education...