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The Cause and the Cure

By Gordon Francis Corbett

    Neil Livingstone and David Halevy report in their book, "Inside the PLO," that Saudi Arabia and some other Middle Eastern oil-producing nations pay terrorist chieftains to commit sabotage and murder.  They do it to remind us that they sell us oil at their pleasure, and that their pleasure depends on political factors.

    Europe uses a lot of oil.  Some of it comes from Moslem nations whose leaders love power and crave obeisance.  For almost three decades, they have used their oil to obtain them.

    That Europe's leaders tolerate their arrogance is puzzling.  They have no reason to knuckle under, and every incentive to seek redress through force.  Their armed forces could easily defeat the desert despots, and the aftermath of the Gulf War teaches that skilled teams can restore sabotaged wells.

    Were the Moslem oil-producers willing to let the market set their prices, and to pursue their politics peacefully, no European nation would have any right to consider invasion and conquest.  Unfortunately, extortion, sabotage, and murder leave no legitimate answer but force;  and the longer the Europeans temporize, the longer these crimes will continue.

    Europe's leaders must act to defend their citizens' rights.  They must ponder, not their plight, but its remedy;  not terrorists, but sponsors;  and, not accommodation, but justice.

    Our public guardians should do likewise.
 

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