Project on Middle East Democracy

Project on Middle East Democracy
The POMED Wire


2008: Palin On Petro-States

October 29th, 2008 by Matt

Sarah Palin delivered an energy policy speech today, hitting on one of POMED’s prime equities in moving toward diminishing our dependence on Middle Eastern oil:

“In the worst cases, some of the world’s most oil-rich nations are also the most oppressive societies. And whether we like it or not, the money we pay for their oil only makes them more powerful and more oppressive. Oil wealth allows undemocratic governments to crush dissent and to subjugate women. Other regimes use it to finance terrorists around the world and criminal syndicates in our own hemisphere.”


Posted in Election 08, Oil, US foreign policy, US politics, Women |

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