Will ALWAYS be the more 'glamorous' & preferred way .. as the Prime component, of our energy policy; So long, as our military-industrial 'special-interests,' hold sway; In the corridors, of American governance. - ..{a prescient, if paraphrased warning, of 'Ike' Eisenhower; That sadly went, unheeded!}.

Not to be a 'party-pooper'; But, the next 'Gulf,' 'initial-flashpoint,' might be at our initiative ... Which, won't be known definitively; Perhaps, ever!? -