"Americans once believed that their prosperity and way of life depended on having assured access to Persian Gulf oil. Today, that is no longer the case. The United States is once more an oil exporter. Available and accessible reserves of oil and natural gas in North America are far greater than was once believed. Yet the assumption that the Persian Gulf still qualifies as crucial to American national security persists in Washington. Why?"

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Source : "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss". www.tomdispatch.com. May 7, 2017.

Andrew Bacevich

#Today Quotes #Assumption Quotes #Prosperity Quotes

“In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.”

Source : Johannes Tauler, Charles Kingsley (1858). “The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (temp. 1340)”, p.384
“It's easier to shape a child than to repair an adult.”

Source : Tony Evans (2014). “Raising Kingdom Kids: Giving Your Child a Living Faith”, p.15, Tyndale House
“The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.”
“By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.”

Source : "“Why I Support the National Equality March”: NFL’s Scott Fujita Speaks Out for Gay Rights". Interview with Dave Zirin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that political philosophy is neither rightist nor leftist; it must simply be true .”

Source : "The Twilight of Civilization". Book by Jacques Maritain (p. 41), 1939.
“Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds.”
“For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired.”
“Nobody understands your life, but you.”

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