Green is the new Red, White, and Blue

Wow, just a couple of days after my post on an alternative energy initiative, Thomas Friedman wrote a compelling column on the topic. I'd post it here for you, but since the NY Times charges for that info, I feel it is a no-no. (I pay for a TimesSelect subscription just so that I can read the columns on-line.) That said, I'm sure that if you Google the phrase "green is the new red, white, and blue" you are quite likely to come up with the full text of the column posted elsewhere.

I wish I had Mr. Friedman's way with words. Here are a couple of excerpts from the column that I just loved:

But when it comes to what is actually the most important issue in U.S. foreign and domestic policy today - making ourselves energy efficient and independent, and environmentally green - they [Bush and Cheney] ridicule it as something only liberals, tree-huggers and sissies believe is possible or necessary.

Sorry, but being green, focusing the nation on greater energy efficiency and conservation, is not some girlie-man issue. It is actually the most tough-minded, geostrategic, pro-growth and patriotic thing we can do.

Living green is not just a "personal virtue," as Mr. Cheney says. It's a national security imperative.