Second, use the “oil vacuum” technology, as you refer to it, to open up the oil spigots here at home and let the Middle East take up camel herding. Use a fraction of the money spent in Iraq to do real, actual, innovative research into renewable energy. Oh, why we’re at it, how about easing up on the fuel taxes a little? The government gets about five times the profit from gasoline sales as the “evil” oil companies do. The consumer spends those dollars elsewhere, and under the Fair Tax, or even our progressive punitive tax system, Treasury revenues actually increase.

Third, take some of our troops out of the Middle East and post them on our borders, with machine gun nests preferably. Instead of massive offensives, let Special Ops and HUMINT do their job, and every time some Islamo-fascists get together send a cruise missile up their– um, tents. Sooner or later they will get the hint.

Forth and perhaps foremost… FIRE the Federal Reserve Bank. They aren’t Federal, and there aren’t any reserves. These clowns have debased our currency over almost the last century. Has anyone other than hedge fund “managers” done such an abysmal job of managing currency?? Time for Treasury Notes and a Gold Standard.

Of course, JFK was pushing for Treasury issued currency. Look where it got him. Hmm.