David Frum

The Iranian regime now has to reassert its authority within its territory, which means killing a lot of people.

And they have to exact a price from the Emirates.

They don't stop firing at Israel.

They have to exact a price.

Right now, they're humiliated.

There's no such thing as energy independence.

There's one global price of energy.

And wherever it comes from, that's the price.

So you may get all of your energy from North America.

There may be no absolute shortage, but the price will be the global price.

You can't get oil from the Persian Gulf to Japan.

Well, the Japanese then enter the auction market for North American oil.

So two answers to that question.

The first one is, why do I care?

And the second is, what do I hope would happen?

Admitting that what I hope for is kind of unlikely.

Why?

Because the reason I became an anti-Trump Republican in the first place, and I remain an anti-Trump Republican, I'm disaffiliated from the party and moral disgust, but I believe in American global leadership.

I don't want to see the Chinese fleet policing the Persian Gulf.

Even though the oil is flowing not to the United States, but to American allies, the United States gets enormous benefits from being-