Contrary to popular belief, much of America's early financing came from Holland and not from France. While the French provided the initial assistance during the revolution, John Adams spent a great deal of time securing the backing of the Dutch on loans and securities for the fledgling nation. Now, we seem to be looking at Holland not for the things that made her prosperous but for the idyllic scenes that bring tourists to her shores.
While we busy ourselves setting up windmills to power our nation, the President offers nuclear material to the United Arab Emirates. In taking ourselves back to the stone age in pursuing worthless flights of energetic fancy, we are helping other nations become our superiors. I don't see how it makes any sense for us to help Dubai build a nuclear reactor while we refuse to do in kind. If nuclear energy is bad, it is bad everywhere, not ok just because the reactor is located in a part of the world most Americans couldn't identify on a globe, if Americans could even recognize a globe.
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