Best-selling author and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman reports that America’s addiction to imported oil continues to line the pockets of international terrorists presently fighting our armed forces in the Middle East.
After reviewing recently leaked diplomatic cables, Friedman writes in The New York Times that the U.S. dependence on foreign oil funds a wide array of anti-American initiatives, ranging from educational programs to terrorist activities:
While the Saudis are urging us to take out Iran’s nuclear capability, we learn from the cables that private Saudi donors today still constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide — not to mention the fundamentalist mosques, charities and schools that spawn the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Friedman’s stark conclusion, which ran in Sunday’s Times, mirrors one that Boone Pickens has been saying since he launched the Pickens Plan in July 2008:
So basically our oil payments are cycled through Saudi Arabia and end up funding the very militants whom our soldiers are fighting.
Read Friedman’s entire column from the Sunday Times HERE.