From War To Peace Through Energy

June 2, 2015

The article below was submitted by William Schachte, a retired Navy rear admiral who resides in Charleston, S.C.  He is the state chairman of Vets4Energy.

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More than a million American men and women have given their lives in service to our country.  On Memorial Day, as always, we honored their service with parades, visits to cemeteries, moments of silence, and countless other tributes.  We shared stories about the brave loved ones we’ve lost and show pictures to our young relatives of their patriotic parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and siblings in uniform.

Perhaps the best tribute we can give them is our concerted effort to lessen the likelihood of future wars.

We’re not talking about idealistic or suicidal gestures like unilateral disarmament.  We’re not peaceniks.  As a veteran, we know that the world can be a dangerous place, where a kind heart and good intentions won’t protect you.  We know that wars, ultimately, are fought to preserve our freedoms and the freedoms of our allies — and that, sometimes, they simply can’t be avoided.

But there are contributing factors, like the need for access to energy, that can be minimized by securing friendlier and more reliable foreign sources or, better yet, by developing our own resources.  Toward that end, we should support an all-of-the-above approach to energy independence, encouraging coal production, fracking, development of Arctic reserves, and safely drilling in the outer continental shelf (OCS), etc.

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