Choose electricity or gas
Or, to put it another way, choose between terrorism and your own citizens.The NYT's recent pathetic attempt to explain Iran's collapsing energy system could take pointers from Ed Morrissey, who has no trouble sorting it out. Iran's leaders chose to pursue regional "theocratic adventurism" via terrorism and nuclear weapons, rather than develop their own lavish natural gas resources in a form that could both heat homes and power industry.Now there's not enough natural gas extracted in usable form to heat homes while also fueling electrical power plants. The solution? Shut off the gas supplies to power plants, with the result that electrical power outages are inconveniencing homeowners but, worse, outright crippling industry. The proposed strategy for homeowners to get through the winter is to ration. Maybe in the spring there will be industry again!Destroying Iran's nuclear program and proxy terrorism structure may be the best thing that could happen to its citizens. So if we must blame the Jews, let's blame them for not doing it sooner.
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There are times when if one knows a lot about a subject, it is easy to point out errors in a media article about the subject. But one doesn't need to have but a cursory knowledge of Iran to see the gross negligence of the NYT article. While the NYT article mentioned Iran's recent foreign policy failure with the fall of the Assad, Jr, regime in Syria, it made no effort to connect Iran's foreign policy with its domestic energy problems. As the PJ Media article points out, money that went to support Iran's foreign policy dreams could have been spent to maintain and improve Iran's domestic energy supply.
BTW, Venezuela also has a shortage of natural gas at a time when there is a lot of extra cooking for Christmas.
"...money that went to support Iran's foreign policy dreams could have been spent to maintain and improve Iran's domestic energy supply..."
I think that's chiefly the complaint against Crusaders like me, mutatis mutandis. Once when I was young I sowed the Cross on my shoulder and went to war; not by myself, but in very good company. The best company, warriors who pledged their honor and fate to what they believed was the finest hope of mankind.
Perhaps we were wrong. Perhaps that motive is even always wrong; perhaps it is a matter we should learn from. Anyway I did it, right or wrong; and if wrong, may God forgive me.
You have nothing to apologize for. You didn't inflict terrorism on a whole region out of sheer bloody-mindedness and a compulsion to throw your weight around.
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