Flynt Leverett on NPR: "U.S. Foreign Policy and the Axis of Oil"

[Junkdrawer]

Flynt Leverett, Director of the Geopolitics of Energy Initiative at the New America Foundation, speaks with John Ydstie about what he calls the "axis of oil." Leverett says the United States needs a more adequate response to countries that use their oil wealth to challenge U.S. interests.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6854133

Basically, Flynt is advocating a diplomatic way of dealing with the fact that we are not in an enviable position re: Foreign Oil Dependence.

Bush Co, of course, has chosen a different way to deal with this problem...