Tim Pawlenty Firmly in the Neocon Camp

Pawlenty the Hawk
He’s betting that voters, however fatigued with intervention, won’t accept decline.

Tim Pawlenty the Afghanistan hawk
While much of the GOP — including several of his 2012 opponents — inches toward supporting withdrawal from Afghanistan, Tim Pawlenty plants his flag on the pro-war right.

Tim Pawlenty Goes Full Metal Hawk in Foreign Policy Speech

Amory Lovins reports in WINNING THE OIL END GAME that the nearly 70-ton M1A2 Abrams battletank was designed on the assumption that fuel cost would be $1/gal with zero delivery cost. But even delivery cost by land to the Forward Edge of the Battle Area (FEBA) costs $30/gallon and, under a worst-case scenario, can run to $600/gallon. On the battlefield, each tank must be trailed by several lumbering 5,000-gallon tankers. An armored division may use 20 or perhaps 40 times as many daily tons of fuel as it does munitions, or about 600,000 gallons/day. The Abrams averages about 0.5 mpg.