Wasted Moments - a Thomas Freidman Column

When not harping on the flat world and globalization, Thomas Freidman often took the Bush Administration to task for wasting the opportunity to unify Americans post-9/11. Yesterday, he added 4/11 - symbolic of the national average of $4.11/gallon for gas - as a wasted moment to break our addiction to oil. He compares it to a crack addict:

When a person is addicted to crack cocaine, his problem is not that the price of crack is going up. His problem is what that crack addiction is doing to his whole body. The cure is not cheaper crack, which would only perpetuate the addiction and all the problems it is creating. The cure is to break the addiction.