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JOHN CONNALLY HAS PLAYED his cards. He has exposed the hand he plans to use in his bid to capture the Republican nomination for president. In his speech last week to the National Press Club he proposed linking American policy in the Middle East to the price of oil--a...
His analysis is short-sighted. First, anyone who believes that influencing American policy against Israel will solve our oil crisis in myopically naive. Countries that support the Arab states have received no rise in gas allocations or any dip in oil prices. OPEC is hardly a non-profit organization offering...
Connally's analysis also plays into Arab hands. He envisions that Arabs who receive a favorable settlement will open the spigot and our oil shortage will magically be over. Don't vote on it. Our energy problem will only be solved be domestic programs, and not by OPEC's charity...
Connally's appeasement of the Arabs (he has already received campaign contributions from Arab supporters) and his anti-Israel position ignore all of these considerations. His politics could be popular among Republicans and push him through the primaries. But he should beware that they could backfire in a general election...
No doubt Connally will continue his polemic on the Israel-oil connection. Connally must be praying for a cold winter so he can remind us how warm we would be with a fresh supply of Arab oil in our furnaces. But resting our hopes for an energy solution on OPEC...