Tall and handsome, Engels had a taste not just for ideas but for the good life wine, women, riding with the Cheshire hunt and seems to have felt little sense of irony that all these things were paid for by the proletariat's back-breaking labour.
Rather, we should be appreciative for what should be the proverbial camel's back-breaking straw: A final wake-up call, one that establishes unmistakably that it is neither in the United States' strategic, national security nor economic interests for this country and other industrialized nations to continue relying upon imported oil from those who wish to do us harm.