If not, he’s a worthy heir.

Well let’s see the terrorists blow up their own oil supplies to deny us the right to have it. We import more from elsewhere, develop alternate sources, and pump oil sand and shales since it’s now economically feasible to do so. We also impose tighter controls on demand just like WW2 rationing. The terrorists are now reviled by the world, including their own supporters who cannot eat since they only export two things: oil and jihad. Nobody wants jihad. Wonder if you can eat sand?

You really have drunk the Kool-Ade. Saudi-backed terrorists aren’t fools. They need the facilities we built and they simply want to control it to finance their religious war. Some occasional harassment is there to scare the House of Said and to keep the extortion money flowing.

Is it really true that most conservatives avoid critical thinking?

Seems to me we are protecting a source of one of the world’s most precious commodities, oil.

Of course some here would say we ought to let some terrorists blow the facilities up so the world gets starved off oil quicker even though millions would perish as a result.