Reply #23: Very Dumb Question for Which I Apologize In Advance

[Coastie for Truth]

How does an intelligent person explain away and/or reconcile the differing conclusions of Walt and Mearsheimer with, for example:

1. http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf|PNAC's Rebuilding America's Defenses>

2. Paul Sperry, "Crude Politics"

3. Kevin Phillips, "American Theocracy" (especially the chapters on "oil")

4. Matthew Simmons, "Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy"

Can one be a liberal and/or Progressive, and a Democrat, and hold the belief that our heroin - crack cocaine like addiction for gas guzzling SUV's and oil just might, possibly, be more of a cause for our conduct then is AIPAC.