Ted Koppel Gets A Clue

I was saying this 4 years ago (well, actually for the last 30; just more relevant than ever four years ago):

"Perhaps the day will come when the United States is no longer addicted to imported oil; but that day is still many years off. For now, the reason for America's rapt attention to the security of the Persian Gulf is what it has always been. It's about the oil."

Would that Mr. Squirrel-Hair had pushed this notion right after Tora Bora.