[Seed] Is Energo-fascism in Your Future?

This seed planted in Michael Klare Part II

Mr. Harrison,

exegesis

Great word. I had to look that one up.

...instead I get the same tired claptrap that it's all mainly the fault of the United States. Surprise, surprise

I could say, in a similar vein, Gee, it's that Harrison guy barging into yet another of my postings with the same, tired cult-of-Americana claptrap. Surprise, surprise, surprise... But what would that accomplish?

That said, you're attempts at characterizing this article are flawed at best. I'm the first to admit that Mr. Klare is a resounding critic of many of the U.S.'s policies, as should you be. While there's nothing about Hugo Chavez, there's ample criticism of both Russia and Iran, who are implied to be every bit the "proto-Nationalists" you site, and rightly so. While there are glancing similarities between Islamism (as opposed to Islam) and fascism, they are base similarities of methodology and, indeed, pale in comparison to the very terrifying threat of energy supply peaks and the aftermath of the same, a situation which might very literally produce death and suffering on par with the Third Reich.

Please, try and critique the entire content of an article instead of posting gut-reactions to a few, simple "trigger-sentences." Thousands of lives are in the balance of these policies, which are determined, to a degree, by the voting citizenry's interpretation of geopolitics and the candidates they pick to confront the same. The blood and the fault in invading a foreign nation is on your hands and mine every bit as much as the soldiers who are killed and who do the killing in our names, as is the aftermath of the disastrous energy policies our Executive continues to push. These reindeer games of discrediting and subterfuge accomplish nothing but to make the entire affair a distasteful shouting match. I'd frankly rather have no comments than hundreds like that.