Commentary All of modern history could be ransacked in vain to find a more ludicrously implausible and self-defeating policy than the Biden administration’s deliberate suppression of American oil and gas production, which has scorched the world oil price upwards and financed the barbarous Russian invasion of Ukraine that the United States rightly condemns and vigorously opposes. The 2002 invasion of Iraq was justifiable as an assault on a terrorism-exporting state, though allegations of development of weapons of mass destruction proved to be false. But the chief geopolitical consequence of it was the disintegration of the Iraqi state and the assumption of a vastly increased influence over Iraq by America’s principal regional enemy, Iran. As is now almost universally recognized, the enterprise was a disaster, but if instead of dismissing the Iraqi armed forces and police while leaving them to retain their own weapons and munitions, assuring a prolonged civil war, …