President Obama says that global warming can cause terrorism (he still can't bring himself to say the I-word). But if you start seeing the oceans rise by five, six, seven feet, if you see major shifts in weather patterns so that what had been previously bread baskets to the world suddenly can no longer grow food, then you’re seeing the kind of crisis that we can’t deal with through the deployment of the Marines, we can’t deal with it through throwing money at it. What we know is that as human beings are placed under strain, then bad things happen. And, you know, if you look at world history, whenever people are desperate, when people start lacking food, when people are not able to make a living or take care of their families, that’s when ideologies arise that are dangerous. I think Obama is on to something, but he's got it the other way around.  It's not global warming that causes radical Islam; it's radical Islam that causes...(Read Full Post)